June 12 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court brought back a lawsuit against the FBI over a mishandled home raid from 2017 in Atlanta on Thursday.
A unanimous decision moved the case over an incident in which federal agents broke through the door of Trina Martin's home with a search warrant at the wrong address, back to a lower court to look at it again to see if the lawsuit can move forward.
Martin sued the government for assault and battery, false arrest and other violations, after the FBI entered her home, where she lived with her then-boyfriend Toi Cliatt and 7-year-old son Gabe Watson, believing it was the home of an alleged violent gang member.
The suit alleged that agents entered the home with their guns drawn and set of a flash bang that startled the family and caused Gabe to scream.
The Supreme Court ruled that a federal judge in Atlanta and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were wrong to dismiss the suit, ordering them to determine whether the discretionary-function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act in 2019, under which the suit was filed, would allow the case to go forward.
