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Damon Landor is an observant of the Rastafarian religion. A tenet of the religion frowns upon cutting one’s hair, ...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut ...
The legal question is whether he can sue government officials individually for money damages under a federal religion law.
Damon Landor, whose faith requires him to let his hair grow long, said guards threw a court ruling in the trash before ...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether an inmate can sue a government official in his individual capacity – ...
The justices will review an appellate ruling that held that the former inmate, Damon Landor, could not sue prison officials ...
Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Landor, who filed a lawsuit based on the 2020 incident when he had ...
Photo: Getty Images North America The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Black man whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...
The justices will hear the case of a Rastafarian who alleges his religiously worn dreadlocks were forcibly shaven by ...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian man in its next term, which begins ...
The Republican administration of President Donald Trump defended Landor's legal rights and asked the court to take up the matter.
A man who accuses prison officials of violating his Rastafarian religious beliefs by cutting his dreadlocks will now have his case heard by the Supreme Court.