The Supreme Court will decide if prisoners can sue for damages when their religious rights are violated, focusing on a Rastafarian inmate's case in Louisiana ...

Damon Landor, whose faith requires him to let his hair grow long, said guards threw a court ruling in the trash before holding him down and shaving his head to the scalp.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether prison officials can be sued for violating an inmate’s religious rights after forcibly shaving his dreadlocks. Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, had ...

The Supreme Court is taking up a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian who was restrained and had his dreadlocks forcibly shaved off in a Louisiana prison. Damon Landor claims his religious ...

A Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards asked the Supreme Court to let him sue for damages.

The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the case of a devout Rastafarian whose knee-length dreadlocks were forcibly cut while he was in prison in the southern state of Louisiana.

Supreme Court will hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by Louisiana prison guards Damon Landor carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case holding ...

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a Rastafarian man's bid to sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs.