Damon Landor suffered one of the most blatant and obvious violations of his religious liberty imaginable. Landor is Rastafarian and, as part of his religious devotion, does not cut his hair. According ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Landor, whose dreadlocks almost reached his knees, revealed his faith to a guard and handed him a copy of a court decision that held that a federal law on religious freedom prevented Louisiana prisons ...

IT is not easy to admit a great liking for Landor without ranging one’s self with the Landorians, however desirous one may be to avoid the special pleading of a sectarian for the god of his fancy. And ...

Two things went very wrong when Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian, was transferred to a prison in central Louisiana five years ago. The first is that prison guards handcuffed Landor to a chair and ...

Wakeful he sits, and lonely, and unmoved, Beyond the arrows, views, or shouts of men. And of himself he has said, in perhaps his most memorable lines, — I strove with none, for none was worth my ...

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