The justices considered the Fifth Circuit's "moment of the threat" doctrine during a hearing about a 2016 fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black man.

Brett Kavanaugh started off shouting. He’d prepared a blistering defence of his character and a scathing rebuke of the “national disgrace” of his Supreme Court confirmation process.

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 Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death ...

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes in 2016. The Supreme Court weighed Monday whether courts should ...

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." ...

(Reuters) -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 ...

Or should they examine the totality of the circumstances, including the officer’s actions leading up to the shooting?

A New York Times journalist offered a mea culpa of sorts to an author whom his reporting had implicated in the sexual assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over whether a Houston man's death at the hands of a Harris County deputy constable should be used to create a nationwide standard on how lawsuits over ...