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Rastafarian who had his hair forcibly cut in prison takes dispute to Supreme Court

Interpretation of federal religious-freedom law at issue

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May 20, 2024
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Damon Landor’s rights were violated in a “in a stark and egregious manner” when Louisiana prison guards physically forced him to have his hair cut in 2020, a majority of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges told him in a Feb. 5 decision. But that same majority saw itself as powerless to a…

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