The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five ...
A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes ...
The Supreme Court will consider whether to order new nationwide precedent about how lower courts will consider facts over police shootings.
The family of Ashtian Barnes, a 24-year-old killed in a traffic stop, say officer is responsible for circumstances that made him shoot.
How the Supreme Court decides the civil rights issue could affect how readily judges dismiss suits against police for ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on Wednesday that could make it easier to hold police officers accountable for use of deadly force.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death ...
The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment ...
Supreme Court justices appeared likely to allow an excessive force claim brought against a police officer over the shooting ...
The justices suggested a lower court used the wrong test in deciding a Texas officer did not use unconstitutionally excessive force in fatally shooting an unarmed Black man during a 2016 traffic stop.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined on Wednesday to revive a Texas woman's civil rights lawsuit against the Houston police officer who fatally shot her son during a traffic stop in a case that ...
Barnes v. Felix is a Texas case that began when Ashtian Barnes was pulled over by police in 2016 for outstanding toll violations.