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

HeadlineJun 13, 2025

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 the home as they searched for a suspect. Martin described being dragged from a closet, where she was hiding, and being held at gunpoint, before the agents realized they had raided the wrong home. Two years later, in 2019, the family sued the FBI and individual agents for the wrong-house raid; the federal government is typically immune from such lawsuits.

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