The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls ...

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.

A U.S. Supreme Court case will determine what should be legally considered when deciding if a police officer’s use of force ...

Ashtian Barnes 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. When Barnes began to drive away ...

The case is called Barnes v. Felix. The question is what should be considered legally when deciding if an officer's use of ...

Barnes v. Felix is a Texas case that began when Ashtian Barnes was pulled over by police in 2016 for outstanding toll violations.

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 case stems from a routine traffic stop on a Texas highway that escalated into a fatal shooting that left 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes bleeding to death in the driver’s seat.Jan. 22 ...

HOUSTON — It took just seconds for a routine traffic stop on a Texas highway to escalate into a fatal shooting that left 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes bleeding to death in the driver’s seat.

Those issues arose from a lawsuit brought by the mother of a 24-year-old man, Ashtian Barnes, who was fatally shot by a Texas traffic enforcement officer in 2016 after Barnes was stopped because ...

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 ...