Source: MSNBC
“If law enforcement wrongly raids your house, damages your property and assaults innocent occupants, you might think you could sue the government over it. But legal accountability is hard to come by. Yet, the Supreme Court just unanimously gave hope to a family’s lawsuit in the wake of a predawn FBI SWAT raid in 2017 in suburban Atlanta. Agents meant to search a suspected gang hideout but instead stormed into the home occupied by Hilliard Toi Cliatt, his partner Curtrina Martin and her 7-year-old son. … The couple sued the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act. But the district court rejected their claims, and the Atlanta-based federal appeals court affirmed the rejection. … The justices didn’t say the suit would prevail in the end; rather, they sent the case back to the 11th Circuit for further review.” (06/12/25)