Lower courts had been divided over whether judges must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to the seconds preceding them. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Texas man who was shot and killed during a traffic stop by a police officer on a highway outside Houston. Roberto Felix of the ...

In Barnes v. Felix, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that courts evaluating Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims in Section 1983 lawsuits against law enforcement officers must consider the ...

During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into his car after jumping onto the doorsill as Barnes began to drive away. Last ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed in favor of reviving a civil lawsuit targeting a Harris County constable’s deputy accused in the 2016 shooting death of Ashtian Barnes. The move could ...

The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment of threat.” By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court ...