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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself ...

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

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