Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety · ¶51

Neither respondents nor the Court contests Congress’s power to impose RLUIPA’s substantive directive accommodating religious freedom. The majority nevertheless adopts the peculiar position that Congress is powerless to create, and a State is powerless to accept, the natural next step: a damages remedy against officials who violate that directive.

slip opinion, revised 6/28/26
Source edition
Passage preview. Read in context for the complete text, notes and references.