WASHINGTON — Taking up a new religious rights case, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh a claim for damages brought by a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by Louisiana prison ...

WASHINGTON −A Supreme Court that has been increasingly protective of religious rights nonetheless seemed wary of allowing a Rastafarian to sue Louisiana prison guards for damages after they forcibly ...

Justices appear divided over whether federal law allows damages for religious rights violations by state prison officials. On Nov. 10, the Supreme Court appeared reluctant to allow an incarcerated ...

June 23 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took on a new religious case regarding a former Louisiana inmate of Rastafarian belief whose dreadlocks were forcibly cut off by prison officials, but ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday appeared unlikely to allow a devout Rastafarian to bring a damages claim against Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his ...

Michael Wilson sits in his cell at his rural Lawrence home on a recent day. Wilson spends time in the reconfigured shed, studying and contemplating his faith. The 55-year-old Lawrence man has ...

BULL BAY, Jamaica — The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica”s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the ...

The leader of a Rastafarian church, where two Yuba County sheriff's deputies were shot, was arrested Tuesday, along with 17 other people, in connection with illegal marijuana grow operations in ...

An Orthodox Rastafarian woman had a “piece of her taken away” when she was forced to reveal her dreadlocks to police after being falsely accused of stealing $7 worth of groceries, the Daily News has ...