The Supreme Court has ruled that a Louisiana man who said prison guards forcibly cut his locs despite his Rastafari beliefs cannot sue the officers involved, delivering a decision that could have wide-ranging implications for how incarcerated people enforce federal religious protections. According to CNN, in a 6-3 ruling issued on Tuesday, June 23, the court sided against Damon Landor, a devout Rastafari follower who argued that officials at Louisiana's Raymond Laborde Correctional Center violated his religious rights when they restrained him and cut the knee-length locs he had maintained for nearly two decades. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, said Congress had not clearly authorized lawsuits against individual state employees under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, commonly known as RLUIPA. "None of that is consistent with our precedents," Gorsuch wrote, rejecting arguments that federal prison funding automatically exposed individual officers to liability.…