# Supreme Court blocks suit over prison guards’ forced shave – WTOC

> The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate, Damon Landor, cannot sue Louisiana prison officials for forcibly shaving his dreadlocks, finding that the Religious Land Use and Institution…

**Published**: 2026-06-24
**Source**: https://gps.press/gps-news/supreme-court-blocks-suit-over-prison-guards-forced-shave-wtoc/
**Author**: Georgia Prisoners' Speak

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate, Damon Landor, cannot sue Louisiana prison officials for forcibly shaving his dreadlocks, finding that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not provide a cause of action against individual officers under Congress’s Spending Clause authority. The decision, which split along ideological lines, drew a dissent from liberal…