Overview

• The FBI SWAT team executed a predawn raid with guns drawn and a flash-bang grenade at a house where Trina Martin, Toi Cliatt and their son were sleeping.
• Agents left and apologized after realizing their Garmin GPS device had led them to the wrong address intended for suspect Joseph Riley.
• A unanimous Supreme Court opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch held that the Federal Tort Claims Act permits the family to pursue assault and false-imprisonment claims.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the discretionary function exception may not bar the family’s suit.
• Litigation will resume in lower courts where the family seeks damages for the 2017 incident under the FTCA.