A Colorado man who said he was forced to shave his beard while incarcerated for a parole violation has won a $245,000 settlement after a decade-long legal battle, resolving a First Amendment lawsuit ...

According to The Denver Post, lawyers said the state agreed in September to pay Ashaheed $245,000, with the deal finalized in ...

Tajuddin Ashaheed brought the lawsuit against the Colorado Department of Corrections nearly a decade ago, after he was forced ...

A settlement was reached after a lawsuit claimed that a Colorado Department of Corrections sergeant forced a Muslim man to ...

Timothy Hurst, The Denver Gazette file The Alfred A. Arraj federal courthouse in Denver A federal judge agreed on Thursday that a jury would decide whether a corrections officer violated the ...

The Supreme Court issued its opinion in Holt on Tuesday, holding that prison regulations that prevented a Muslim inmate from growing a short beard for religious reasons violated the Religious Land Use ...

A Seattle man has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, saying he was fired for refusing to shave his beard because of his religion. Abdulkadir Omar, 22, had worked as a security guard for ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Facial hair is trendy worldwide these days, but in Jerusalem beards have never gone out of style, projecting religious mysticism, nationalism and ideals of masculinity. For men of all ...

A federal judge agreed on Thursday that a jury would decide whether a corrections officer violated the constitutional rights of an incarcerated Muslim man by requiring him to shave his beard upon ...