The Supreme Court seemed divided but largely skeptical on Nov. 10 of a Rastafarian’s attempt to sue prison officials in their individual capacity for shaving his dreadlocks.
Damon Landor has refused to cut his hair as part of what court papers describe as a “Nazarite vow.” But in 2020, a group of prison guards shaved his head despite a federal appeals court ruling that doing so would violate his rights under a law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
Before the Supreme Court was the question of whether Landor could obtain damages from the guards by suing them in their individual capacities….