Lower courts had been divided over whether judges must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to the seconds ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Texas man who was shot and killed during a traffic ...

During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier to bring unreasonable force claims against police, ruling unanimously that ...

In a case making it easier to challenge police unreasonable force in court, the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously allowed ...

In Barnes v. Felix, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that courts evaluating Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims in Section 1983 ...

The Fifth Circuit is the most right-wing appeals court in the federal system, and it is known for handing down slapdash ...

In rejecting the “moment of threat” defense, the court opens the door to greater officer accountability — though how the ...

The high court unanimously ruled that judges must consider the full context surrounding an incident, rejecting a so-called ...

In a term that was increasingly overshadowed by emergency requests related to President Trump’s swift executive actions, ...

Attorneys for Charles Oakley and Madison Square Garden sent letters to U.S. Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan in recent days ...

The issue before the justices was whether courts can look beyond the moments an officer is using deadly force to determine if ...