The U.S. Supreme Court revived on Thursday a Texas woman's civil rights lawsuit against a Houston police officer who fatally shot her son during a traffic stop. The justices, in a 9-0 ruling, threw out a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit by Janice Hughes accusing the officer,

The Supreme Court has revived a civil rights lawsuit against a Texas police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic stop over unpaid tolls

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a lawsuit over the death of a Houston man at the hands of a Harris County deputy constable to go forward. Lower court should have used a broader standard when deciding if excessive force was used in the 2016 shooting death of Ashtain Barnes,