College Student Beaten by Officers Denied Another High Court Bid

A college student in Minnesota who says he was severely beaten by plainclothes officers after they mistook him for a fugitive in 2014 won’t be heard by the US Supreme Court for a second time.

The high court denied James King’s petition for certiorari Monday. He’d asked the justices to address whether a procedural rule that permits litigants to seek relief from a judicial judgment was available in his case.

The denial effectively leaves him with no civil recourse against the officers.

King was walking from one summer job to another in 2014 when two plainclothes members of a joint ...