Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety
Decided June 23, 2026. Neil M. Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 23-1197 · 609 U.S. ___ (2026)
Holding
State employees may not be held liable in their personal capacities under a Spending Clause statute such as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 unless those individuals have voluntarily and knowingly consented to answer private suits under the statute; the individual defendants in this case did not do so here, so Landor’s case cannot proceed against them.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 6–3.
Majority · 6
- John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Clarence Thomas
- Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
- Neil M. Gorsuch · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Brett M. Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett
Dissenting · 3
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Elena Kagan
- Ketanji Brown Jackson · filed a dissenting opinion
“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).
Official text
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