{"id":75233,"date":"2026-06-23T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/us-supreme-court-blocks-rastafarian-mans-lawsuit-over-forced-head-shaving-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:59:57","slug":"us-supreme-court-blocks-rastafarian-mans-lawsuit-over-forced-head-shaving-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/us-supreme-court-blocks-rastafarian-mans-lawsuit-over-forced-head-shaving-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court blocks Rastafarian man\u2019s lawsuit over forced head-shaving in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 years<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a> refused on Tuesday to let a Rastafarian man sue \u2060state prison officials in Louisiana \u2060after guards held him \u200bdown and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs, in a landmark case.<\/p>\n<p>The case was brought under a federal law designed to protect incarcerated people from religious discrimination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/23\/supreme-court-ruling-rastafarian-man-religious-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 6-3 opinion, the court says Louisiana prisoner cannot sue guards after he grew his hair for more than 20 years The US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let a Rastafarian man sue \u2060state prison officials in Louisiana \u2060after guards held him \u200bdown and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs, &#8230; <a title=\"US supreme court blocks Rastafarian man\u2019s lawsuit over forced head-shaving in prison\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/us-supreme-court-blocks-rastafarian-mans-lawsuit-over-forced-head-shaving-in-prison\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US supreme court blocks Rastafarian man\u2019s lawsuit over forced head-shaving in prison\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}