On a Thursday afternoon in April 2016, a 24-year-old man named Ashtian Barnes was driving his girlfriend's rental car on the Sam Houston Tollway in Harris County, Texas, when he was pulled over by a ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday on a case that questions under which circumstances police are allowed to use deadly force. Listen to the hearing in the player above. Barnes v. Felix is ...

Professor Robert Leider, who writes in both constitutional law and criminal law, passed along these comments on the Supreme Court's recent oral argument in an excessive force case and I thought ...

Earlier this summer, in a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court affirmed a critical pillar of police accountability. In Barnes v. Felix, the Court ruled that when a victim of police violence sues an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON − Ashtian Barnes was headed down a Texas toll road to pick up his girlfriend’s daughter from day care when a traffic ...

Wrap Technologies, Inc. has released a letter to stockholders from CEO Scot Cohen, highlighting the evolving landscape of law enforcement liability influenced by the recent Supreme Court ruling in ...

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.