SCOTUS to hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by prison guards. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were shaved ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian man in its next term, which begins in October.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

In a case that may reshape how religious liberty is protected behind bars, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that ...