Wikipedia's article on Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety. Records that Damon Landor, a Rastafarian who kept his hair uncut under a Nazarite vow for nearly two decades, was transferred to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Louisiana with about three weeks left on a drug possession sentence, and that guards handcuffed him to a chair and shaved his head after he handed them a copy of a Fifth Circuit ruling that held Louisiana's practice of cutting Rastafarian prisoners' hair unlawful under federal law. States that the Supreme Court decided the case on 23 June 2026 by a 6 to 3 vote, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for the majority and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landor_v._Louisiana_Department_of_Corrections_and_Public_Safety
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Community edited reference page, tier 3, on a decision whose docket number, vote and holding agree with SCOTUSblog's specialist case file above. NotesUsed for the underlying facts of Landor's Nazarite vow, the Fifth Circuit ruling he presented to guards before they shaved him, and the prison's name and location.
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