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 Supreme Court will consider whether to order new nationwide precedent about how lower courts will consider facts over ...

The family of Ashtian Barnes, a 24-year-old killed in a traffic stop, say officer is responsible for circumstances that made him shoot.

The justices appeared to be in broad agreement that the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should take another look at the case of Ashtian Barnes, who died in his rental car in April ...

Ashtian Barnes was driving a rental car on April 28, 2016, when he went to pick up his girlfriend’s daughter from her daycare in Houston, Texas. He didn’t know that one of the rental car’s previous ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on Wednesday that could make it easier to hold police officers accountable for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined on Wednesday to revive a Texas woman's civil rights lawsuit against the Houston ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision will set a precedent for courts that review officer-involved shootings solely by the cop's split-second decisions in the "moment of threat." ...

Ashtian Barnes, an unarmed Black man, was killed by an officer in 2016 after being pulled over outside Houston while driving his girlfriend’s rental car, which had unpaid toll fees.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering reviving a lawsuit by Janice Hughes against a Houston police officer who fatally shot ...

The justices suggested a lower court used the wrong test in deciding a Texas officer did not use unconstitutionally excessive ...