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

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

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

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

The unanimous ruling written by Justice Elena Kagan found that courts must "consider all the relevant circumstances" in police excessive force claims.

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

The Supreme Court has allowed the family of an unarmed 24-year-old man who was killed after being pulled over for suspected ...

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

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday in favor of expanding the review process for police officers accused of using excessive force to include the circumstances that led up to the ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling in Barnes versus Felix. Barnes versus Felix concerned the use of ...

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