Photo: Getty Images North America The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Black man whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...

Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Damon Landor, a dedicated Rastafarian. Landor filed a lawsuit based ...

WASHINGTON (NYT) — The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a Rastafarian man may sue prison guards in Louisiana who shaved off his dreadlocks in seeming violation of an appeals ...

Landor, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, even carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case ...

Damon Landor says his religious rights were violated under a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons ...

The justices will decide whether prison officials can face monetary damages for violating the religious beliefs of an inmate.

The justices agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana, a religious freedom case involving a former prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut by guards ...

The Supreme Court announced it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether an inmate can sue a government official in his individual capacity – ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shorn while he was in ...

While a lower court condemned the actions of the prison guards, it determined that Landor could not sue them for damages ...