Court grants certiorari in five cases, consolidating three

This afternoon the court granted review in the following cases. Hernández v. Mesa: Whether a formalist or functionalist analysis governs the extraterritorial application of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unjustified deadly force, as applied to a cross-border shooting of an unarmed Mexican citizen in an enclosed area controlled by the United States; Whether qualified immunity … Continue reading Court grants certiorari in five cases, consolidating three