The fact that Sheehan involved a real person who was shot five times by police in her own residence seemed to be lost on most of the justices. And maybe that’s just the nature of Supreme Court ...

San Francisco v. Sheehan had all the makings of a blockbuster Supreme Court case. It emerged from a horrifying tragedy: Two police officers repeatedly shot a mentally ill woman in her own home ...

Teresa Sheehan has survived being shot by the police five times; she has survived the challenges of a psychiatric disability; and she has now survived a challenge at the Supreme Court. In 2008, Teresa ...

Wrestling with the case of a knife-wielding San Francisco woman who was shot in her room at a group home by city police officers, U.S. Supreme Court justices ... for Teresa Sheehan, who survived ...

Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice The case centers on a 2008 officer-involved shooting in San Francisco. Two officers responded to a call from a supportive housing complex in the city's ...

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — The Supreme Court is considering whether the Americans ... Police forced their way into Teresa Sheehan's room at a group home and then shot her five times after she came ...

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) -- The Supreme Court ... their way into Teresa Sheehan's room at a group home and shot her five times after she came at them with a knife. The high court left undecided the ...

The Supreme Court's ruling effectively reinstates the 9th Circuit's order for a trial on Sheehan's ADA claim against the city. Sheehan attorney Ben Nisenbaum said he was pleased with the court's ...

The officers responded when a social worker became concerned that Sheehan, then 56, had stopped taking her medication, changing her clothes or eating, according to the Supreme Court ruling.

The United States Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today for a case involving a mentally ill woman shot by San Francisco Police officers in 2008. The woman, Teresa Sheehan — who survived the ...