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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit against a Houston-area police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic stop over unpaid tolls. In a unanimous opinion issued May 15, the ...

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.