The Supreme Court on Monday will hear oral arguments in a case where everyone already agrees a person’s rights were violated.

The case, Landor v. Louisiana, hinges on whether that person can seek monetary damages since they were in prison at the time of the violation.

In 2020, Damon Landor was serving a five-month prison sentence in Louisiana. Landor is a devout Rastafarian, who grew dreadlocks and did not cut his hair for nearly 20 years in accordance with his faith.

Just weeks before his term ended, he was transferred to a new prison. Guards at his first prison respected the religious practice of having long dreadlocks, but guards at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center forcibly cut his hair by handcuffing him to a chair after he waived a physical document outlining the religious l

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