Supreme Court revives lawsuit from Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI

Atlanta apartment complex appealing to void $140M verdict

An Atlanta apartment complex on the hook for $140 million after a tenant died in a 2017 blaze has asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to void the verdi

U.S. Supreme Court sides with victims of botched FBI raid on their home

A botched FBI raid on a suburban Atlanta home has led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision against the government in a lawsuit brought by the victims.

Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Over FBI SWAT Raid on Innocent Family

In a rare unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit filed by Atlanta residents Curtrina Martin and Hilliard Cliatt, whose home was mistakenly raided by FBI SWAT agents in 2017. The family had their lawsuit dismissed by lower courts, but now the justices have sent the case back to the 11th Circuit to reconsider key legal questions under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Over FBI SWAT Raid on …

'Cross-examination can't be denied'

The Supreme Court has ruled that denying the opportunity of cross-examination to a witness constitutes a violation of Article 10-A of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to a fair trial. A five-page judgment authored by Justice Salahuddin Panwar, while setting aside the order of the Federal Service Tribunal, noted that the cross-examination was the highest and most indispensable test known to the law for the discovery of truth. The top …

In NCLA Amicus Win, Supreme Court Revives Innocent Family’s Suit over FBI’s Wrong-House Raid

Washington, DC, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ dismissal of Martin v. United States, an Atlanta family’s Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit against the government for…

SCOTUS Rules Atlanta Family Can Sue Gov’t in Wrongful Raid Case

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled in favor of a family whose Atlanta home was wrongfully raided in the middle of the night by FBI agents eight years ago, allowing their damages lawsuit against the federal government to move forward. In 2017, Curtrina Martin, her partner and her then-7-year-old son were abruptly awoken when a six-agent SWAT team smashed their front door with a battering ram, detonated a flashbang grenade and raided …