Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety · ¶65

So I begin by rejecting respondents’ statutory argument. RLUIPA plainly authorizes individual-capacity lawsuits for money damages. We have already interpreted identical language in RLUIPA’s sister statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), to allow for individual-capacity damages lawsuits. See Tanzin v. Tanvir, 592 U. S. 43 (2020). And RLUIPA’s Spending Clause underpinning does not rob the statute’s text of its plain meaning. Understanding this is necessary background for Part III, infra, my response to the majority’s constitutional analysis.

slip opinion, revised 6/28/26
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