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The Supreme Court ruled in the case of a devout Rastafarian who sought damages after Louisiana prison officials cut his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs.
States had to replace more than $320 million in stolen SNAP benefits from October 2022 to December 2024
The former Louisiana inmate argued his Rastafarian faith was violated after prison officials focibly shaved off his hair.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement cannot sue tech giant Cisco over allegations of aiding the Chinese government’s surveillance and torture of the group. The conservative majority rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt to bring claims against the company and two of its then-executives under the 18th century Alien Tort Statute…
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A federal judge in Texas on Monday blocked a Biden administration immigration rule that allowed judges to close deportation proceedings indefinitely, ending the policy the same day Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a conservative legal group challenged it in court. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a nominee of former President George W. Bush, entered […]
The Supreme Court ruled that a Rastafari man cannot seek damages from state prison guards who shaved his dreadlocks in violation of his religious rights in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines on Tuesday. Guards at a Louisiana prison handcuffed Damon Landor to a chair and forcibly shaved his hair when he was weeks away from completing his…
In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 yearsThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let a Rastafarian man sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs, in a landmark case.The case was brought under a federal law designed to protect incarcerated people from religious discrimination. Continue reading...