Washington – A family in Atlanta, whose house was incorrectly attacked by the FBI, will get a new day in court, the Supreme Court unanimously decided on Thursday.
The opinion comes after a RAID of Predawn 2017, in which an armed FBI Swat team hit a front door and triggered a flash bang grenade. He pointed weapons on a couple and frightened a 7-year-old boy before realizing that they were in the wrong house.
The FBI team quickly apologized and went to the right place, with the team leader later said that his personal GPS device led him to the wrong address.
The couple, Trina Martin and Toi Cliance, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in which they accused the agents of the attack and the battery, the wrong arrest and other violations. But the lower dishes thrown away the case. The 11th Court of Appeal of the US U.S. found that they could not sue, which was an honest mistake. The Court of Appeal also found that the lawsuit was excluded according to a determination of the constitution known as the Supremacy clause, which states that federal laws have priority over the state laws.
The family's lawyers made an appeal to the Supreme Court and argued that the congress in 1974 had clearly suited as their headlines on wrong houses after two similar attacks. The 11th circle also decided differently than other dishes across the country, they said.
The judges asked public interest groups from the political spectrum to overthrow the judgment and said that his argument would severely restrict the legal way for people to sue the Federal Government in cases of accounting.
