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.

A Texas police officer's actions leading to a deadly shooting will likely receive another review in the Fifth Circuit.

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 ...

(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 ...

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Justices appeared to be open to writing a narrow decision that could reopen the lawsuit over Ashtian Barnes’ death, but at least one member of the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, openly ...

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

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." ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked. Nathaniel Zelinsky ... suggesting he felt constrained to consider only the seconds before the shooting. Justice Neil Gorsuch said the court could clarify that ...

The lower courts dismissed the family’s lawsuit, saying they couldn’t evaluate what led up to the shooting ... Justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly probed whether overturning the lower court's ...