The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to a grant of tort immunity to FBI agents who raided the wrong Atlanta home.
The family subjected to the erroneous raid argued that the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit improperly found the agents had sovereign immunity from the family’s negligence and similar tort claims.
The family—Curtrina Martin, her minor child, and Hilliard Toi Cliatt—also argued the Eleventh Circuit wrongly held that the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause barred the family’s assault and battery claims against the agent, Lawrence Guerra, and the team Guerra led.
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