U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed in favor of reviving a civil lawsuit targeting a Harris County constable’s deputy accused in the 2016 shooting death of Ashtian Barnes.

The nine justices heard arguments in an appeal by Janice Hughes, whose 24-year-old son Ashtian Barnes was killed in the 2016 incident. Hughes appealed after a lower court dismissed her lawsuit ...

Ashtian Barnes, who died in April 2016 on the shoulder of the Sam Houston Tollway, was shot by the officer, Roberto Felix Jr., who jumped on the sill of the driver's door of Barnes' car as it ...

Roberto Felix Jr., an officer for the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable’s Office in Texas, pulled over Ashtian Barnes after the vehicle he was driving – which was rented by his girlfriend ...

Officer Roberto Felix’s lawyers say the shooting was justified because his life was in danger when Ashtian Barnes began to drive away with Felix on the vehicle. Barnes’ mother, Janice Hughes ...

(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 ...

The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to make it somewhat easier for individuals to try to hold police officers accountable for using deadly force, in a case involving the fatal shooting of ...

Felix, a case involving a Fourth Amendment challenge against Texas police officer Roberto Felix and whether he used reasonable force when he shot and killed Ashtian Barnes during a traffic stop in ...

Ashtian Barnes was driving a rental car on April 28, 2016, when he went to pick up his girlfriend’s daughter from her daycare in Houston, Texas. He didn’t know that one of the rental car’s previous ...

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 FDA says ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering reviving a lawsuit by Janice Hughes against a Houston police officer who fatally shot her son, Ashtian Barnes, during a 2016 traffic stop. The case could redefine ...

The excessive force suit from the family of Ashtian Barnes is one of many to make its way to the high court at a time when the nation and federal courts continue to wrestle with when to hold police ...