By Andrew Chung

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is due on Monday to hear arguments in a Rastafarian man’s bid to sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs in a case brought under a federal law protecting incarcerated people from religious discrimination.

The justices will hear arguments in an appeal by Damon Landor, whose religion requires him to let his hair grow, of a lower court’s decision to throw out his lawsuit because it found the statute at issue did not allow him to sue individual officials for monetary damages.

The law, called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, or RLUIPA, prohibits religious discrimination by state and local governments in land-use reg

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