2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded
Barnes v. Felix
605 U.S. 73
The record
- Term
- 2024
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
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- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 23-1239
- U.S. Reports
- 605 U.S. 73
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Elena Kagan
Holding
The Fifth Circuit’s moment-of-threat rule—a framework for evaluating police shootings which requires a court to look only to the circumstances existing at the precise time an officer perceived the threat inducing him to shoot—improperly narrows the Fourth Amendment analysis of police use of force.
How the bench divided
No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.
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