The former Louisiana inmate argued his Rastafarian faith was violated after prison officials focibly shaved off his hair.

The Supreme Court has been friendly to religious liberty claims and hostile to lawsuits seeking damages against government ...

The ruling dealt with legal technicalities but is a departure from a series of decisions by the justices expanding religious ...

The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The February 2021 prison memo sent by Warden Brad Adams was clear. “Effective immediately” inmates in the medium-security, ...

The US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a devout Rastafarian whose knee-length dreadlocks were forcibly shorn in jail ...

The Supreme Court has decided that a man whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved in prison cannot sue the prison guards for ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs. The ...

The Supreme Court appeared unconvinced Monday that a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly cut in prison five years ago should be able to sue correction officials for damages. Damon Landor ...

WASHINGTON — Damon Landor is a Rastafarian. His faith requires him to let his hair grow long. When he started a five-month prison term for drug possession in Louisiana, his dreadlocks fell nearly to ...

Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks, Supreme Court rules - The Rastafari faith is ...

A Kentucky state prison warden issued a memo banning braids, cornrows or dreadlocks for inmates being moved in or out of a facility or in solitary confinement. Carlos Thurman, 50, alleges in a federal ...