The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a devout Rastafarian who attempted to sue prison officials for holding him down and cutting his dreadlocks could not proceed with his case, a decision that will ...

The Supreme Court has been friendly to religious liberty claims and hostile to lawsuits seeking damages against government officials.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court held Tuesday that a Rastafarian former inmate cannot hold Louisiana prison guards responsible ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a Rastafarian man’s bid to sue prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs, marking a rare defeat for religious liberty at the ...

The high court has upheld ruling that prisoners cannot sue prison staff for money damages under religious liberties law.

The Supreme Court has decided that a man whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved in prison cannot sue the prison guards for violating his Rastafarian beliefs.

In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 years ...

T HE NAZARITE VOW, rooted in Numbers 6:5, requires that “the locks of the hair of [one’s] head” grow uncut. For Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, that two-decade commitment had l ...

The Supreme Court rejected a former Louisiana inmate's effort to sue state prison officials after they shaved his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs.

The justices concluded that federal law protecting incarcerated people’s religious freedom does not allow prison employees to be held liable.