The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Black man whose dreadlocks were shaved off by Louisiana prison officials.

The high court on Monday granted certiorari in the case Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety. Oral arguments are expected to take place this fall.

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 his dreadlocks cut off by prison officials in the Correction Center. There, ...

Reply of petitioner Damon Landor filed. (Distributed) 08/21/2024: DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024. 10/07/2024: The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the ...

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 ...

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

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Damon Landor, a former Louisiana inmate who says prison officials violated ...

While a lower court condemned the actions of the prison guards, it determined that Landor could not sue them for damages because the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 ...