The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five ...

How the Supreme Court decides the civil rights issue could affect how readily judges dismiss suits against police for ...

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes ...

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 case is called Barnes v. Felix. The question is what should be considered legally when deciding if an officer's use of ...

It took just seconds for a routine traffic stop on a Texas highway to escalate into a fatal shooting that left 24-year-old ...

Barnes v. Felix is a Texas case that began when Ashtian Barnes was pulled over by police in 2016 for outstanding toll ...

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 justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment ...