When Louisiana prison guards told a newly arrived Rastafarian inmate named Damon Landor that he was required to cut off the knee-length dreadlocks that he had been growing for decades as part of his ...
Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our ...
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 he was incarcerated.The case is the latest that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs. The ...