- The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a former Louisiana inmate can’t sue prison officials for money damages after they cut his Rastafari dreadlocks, saying the law protecting inmates' religious rights (RLUIPA) doesn’t authorize individual damages suits.
- Justices strongly condemned the forcible haircut—Justice Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent warned officials will have little incentive to comply with federal law; the DOJ had sided with the inmate.
- Louisiana says it has changed its grooming policy; the case keeps attention on how prisons handle religious and cultural practices like Rastafari dreadlocks.
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