A Massachusetts judge has ordered that Quincy hold off installing statues of Catholic saints on the city's new public safety headquarters, giving at least a temporary win to a group of taxpayers backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

The group sued in Norfolk Superior Court in May, citing the separation of church and state. Legal arguments were heard last month regarding the city's use and financing of religious symbols for a city-owned building , and Judge William Sullivan invoked the name of Quincy's favorite son, Founding Father and U.S. president John Adams.

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His order granting the plaintiffs request for an injunction — to stop the statues' installation on the $170 million building pr

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