The US Supreme Court revived a Georgia family’s suit against the federal government after the FBI mistakenly raided their home.
In a unanimous ruling on Thursday by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court said the Federal Tort Claims Act may have waived the federal government’s sovereign immunity. The act waives the government’s immunity in cases that would generally be barred.
In doing so, the court undid what it called the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s “outlier” approach to whether these kinds of cases can go forward. But it left several questions unresolved.
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