The US Supreme Court ruled that a Rastafarian man cannot sue prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks, citing the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Justice Gorsuch stated officials must consent to liability under RLUIPA, a decision dissented by liberal justices.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Louisiana prisoner cannot sue prison guards for money damages after they forcibly shaved his dreadlocks, citing the Spending Clause of the Constitution. The majority held that laws passed under this clause function as contracts, and individual suits require the agreement of the sued parties.
This article explores two chess cheating scandals spanning 30 years: the 1993 Von Neumann Affair at the World Open in Philadelphia, where an unrated player using hidden technology in his shoes drew with grandmaster Helgi Ólafsson before fleeing after being asked to solve a puzzle; and the 2022 Hans Niemann controversy, detailed in Netflix documentary Untold: Chess Mates, where Niemann was accused of cheating against Magnus Carlsen using a sex toy. The piece examines how chess has transformed from an era when Garry Kasparov could beat any computer to today where grandmasters would lose to a novice with a phone.
