FBI SWAT team raided wrong home, but didn’t pay for damages and now SCOTUS has questions
The Supreme Court granted fast-tracked review in Martin v. United States— a case about whether a Georgia family can sue the federal government for their home being mistakenly raided by FBI SWAT team.
The FBI Wrongly Raided This Family's Home. Now the Supreme Court Will Hear Their Case.
When asked about the evening the FBI mistakenly broke into her home, detonating a flash grenade in the house and ripping her door from its hinges,
High Court Takes Up Appeal on FBI Immunity in Wrong-House Raid
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.
Supreme Court to review case of FBI agents raiding wrong house, guns drawn
An Atlanta family took the federal government to court in an attempt to recover some of the damage caused by agents who threw a flashbang grenade into their living room and woke them up one morning in October 2017 with guns drawn.
Supreme Court to decide whether FBI can be held liable for mistaken raid
An FBI SWAT team smashed the front door of a suburban Atlanta home in 2017 as they attempted to serve a search warrant. They had the wrong home.
SCOTUS to hear Atlanta family’s case after FBI mistakenly raided their house
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of an Atlanta family who says the Federal Bureau of Investigation mistakenly raided their home. Channel 2 investigative reporter Ashli Lincoln has been following Trina Martin and her family’s fight against the federal government.
Supreme Court to review wrong-house FBI raid lawsuit
The Supreme Court will decide if the FBI is immune from lawsuit after a SWAT team mistakenly raided an Atlanta family’s home, causing trauma and damages.
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