Lower courts had dismissed the excessive force lawsuit filed against Felix by Barnes’ mother, Janice Hughes. The issue before the justices is whether those lower courts used the right standard, ...

Supreme Court justices appeared likely to allow an excessive force claim brought against a police officer over the shooting ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined on Wednesday to revive a Texas woman's civil rights lawsuit against the Houston ...

For Barnes’ mother, Janice Hughes, 55, who filed the civil rights lawsuit at the center of the case, the oral argument at the high court is the latest stop on a more than eight-year quest for justice ...

The Supreme Court will consider whether to order new nationwide precedent about how lower courts will consider facts over police shootings.

The US Supreme Court appeared likely to revive a woman’s claim that a Texas police officer acted unreasonably when he shot and killed her son during a routine traffic stop.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on Wednesday that could make it easier to hold police officers accountable for use of deadly force.

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.

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

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.