(RNS) — On May 3, a Rastafarian serving a five-month sentence in in a Louisiana state prison filed a Supreme Court petition to seek damages after his jailers cut his dreadlocks, a hairstyle he said he ...

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 ...

June 23 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took on a new religious case regarding a former Louisiana inmate of Rastafarian belief whose dreadlocks were forcibly cut off by prison officials, but ...

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 for ...

WASHINGTON — Taking up a new religious rights case, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh a claim for damages brought by a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by Louisiana prison officials ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose head was forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards despite the man’s religious vow not to cut his dreadlocks.

Washington — The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider a religious rights case brought by a former Louisiana inmate who is seeking to sue Louisiana prison officials for money damages for ...