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One of the cases the Supreme Court will hear during the 2025-26 term started with a haircut. Damon Landor’s head was forcibly ...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether an inmate can sue a government official in his individual capacity – that is, seeking to hold an official personally liable, […] ...
Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought ...
Damon Landor says his religious rights were violated under a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
WASHINGTON − Damon Landor was prepared to protect the dreadlocks he had been growing for nearly two decades, in adherence to his Rastafarian beliefs, when serving a prison sentence in Louisiana ...
I n yet another instance of Black hair being policed, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Damon Landor, a devoted Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shorn by prison officials in 2020 ...
Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian who began serving a five-month prison sentence in 2020 for drug possession, had taken a religious vow years earlier to not cut his locks.
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a series of cases to be decided during its next term, which begins in October, involving ...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the appeal from a former Louisiana inmate who said prison guards violated his religious rights by cutting his dreadlocks. Damon Landor, a former inmate who ...
Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian who began serving a five-month prison sentence in 2020 for drug possession, had taken a religious vow years earlier to not cut his locks.