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Supreme Court rules that prison guards can't be sued for shaving Rastafarian's head
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The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue the guards under a federal law to protect the religious rights of prisoners.
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