# Scott v. Harris > Supreme Court of the United States · April 30, 2007 · 550 U.S. 372 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9435078 ## Case - **Full name:** Scott v. Harris - **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States - **Decided:** April 30, 2007 - **Citations:** 550 U.S. 372; 127 S. Ct. 1769; 167 L. Ed. 2d 686; 2007 U.S. LEXIS 4748 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Concurrence by Ginsburg - **Judges:** Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Axrro, Stevens - **Cited by:** 13,411 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9435078 ## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction) - finding that 9 authenticated video of a car chase showing “vehicle racing down narrow, two-lane roads in the 10 dead of night at speeds that are shockingly fast. . . , swerve[ing] around more than a dozen other 11 cars, cross[ing] the double-yellow line, and forc[ing] cars tra… - explaining that at the summary judgment stage, “courts are required to view the facts and draw reasonable inferences ‘in the light most favorable to the party opposing the [summary judgment] motion ... In qualified immunity cases, this usually means adopting ... the plaintiffs… - holding that a police officer's use of deadly force to stop a high speed car chase was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment through "weighing the perhaps lesser probability of injuring or killing numerous bystanders against the perhaps larger probability of injuring or killin… - explaining, in assessing summary judgment ruling where video evidence “blatantly 20 contradicted” party’s allegations, that when a party’s “version of events is so utterly discredited by the record that no reasonable jury could have believed him,” a court “should not . . . rel… - holding that “[a]t the summary judgment stage, facts must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party only if there is a ‘genuine’ dispute as to those facts, and that where a video depicts facts in such a clear manner that “no reasonable jury” could have belie… ## Opinion text Justice Ginsburg, concurring. I join the Court’s opinion and would underscore two points. First, I do not read today’s decision as articulating a mechanical, per se rule. Cf. post, at 389 (Breyer, J., concurring). The inquiry described by the Court, ante, at 383-385 and this page, is situation specific. Among relevant considerations: Were the lives and well-being of others (motorists, pedestrians, police officers) at risk? Was there a safer way, given the time, place, and circumstances, to stop the fleeing vehicle? “[AJdmirable” as “[an] attempt to craft an easy-to-apply legal test in the Fourth Amendment context [may be],” the Court explains, “in the end we must still slosh our way through the factbound morass of‘reasonableness.’” Ante, at 383. Second, were this case suitable for resolution on qualified immunity grounds, without reaching the constitutional question, Justice Breyer’s discussion would be engaging. See post, at 387-389 (urging the Court to overrule Saucier v. Katz, 533 U. S. 194 (2001)). In joining the Court’s opinion, *387 however, Justice Breyer apparently shares the view that, in the appeal before us, the constitutional question warrants an answer. The video footage of the car chase, he agrees, demonstrates that the officer’s conduct did not transgress Fourth Amendment limitations. See post this page. Confronting Saucier, therefore, is properly reserved for another day and case. See ante, at 377, n. 4. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9435078. Public record. Not legal advice.