Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks

Supreme Court decides not everyone deserves religious liberty

The Supreme Court’s decision in Landor v. Louisiana is a perfect example of how conservatives strip rights from people by abstracting them away.

Supreme Court Bars Rastafarian Man From Suing After Prison Violated His Religious Rights

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, saying the ruling contained a “parade of horribles” that created bad precedent.

Rastafarian man can’t sue prison guards who shaved him bald: US Supreme Court

Damon Landor, whose religion forbids him from cutting his hair, had locks that reached below his knees after growing them for 20 years.

Prison guards cut a Rastafarian’s hair. The Supreme Court says he can’t sue

Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian, understood the threat that prisons and jails posed to his hair — and his faith. Hair is considered sacred in Rastafari, and cutting it violates a religious commitment. Twice Louisiana prison employees had respected Landor’s religious rights and left his dreadlocks alone. But then, in 2020, with three weeks left in Landor’s five-month sentence on a drug-possession charge, he was transferred to a third prison. A…

Supreme Court limits the ability to sue prison guards for religious liberty violations

Another day, another unfortunate decision by the Supreme Court that shields rights-violating government agents from facing accountability.

Supreme Court rules that prison guards can't be sued for shaving Rastafarian's head

The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue the guards under a federal law to protect the religious rights of prisoners.