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Supreme Court orders new look at Las Vegas police restraint death case after qualified-immunity ruling

April 22, 2026 Iniulat ng AI Larawang ginawa ng AI Fact checked

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 20, 2026, granted a petition from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers and sent the death case of Roy Anthony Scott back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reconsider in light of the court’s March 23 decision in Zorn v. Linton.