Supreme Court revives lawsuit from Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI

Toi Cliatt, left, and Trina Martin stand outside the home which the FBI mistakenly raided in 2017, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)

This story was updated on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 1:36 p.m.

An Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI will get a new day in court, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday.

The decision revives a lawsuit filed after a predawn 2017 raid in which armed members of an FBI SWAT team smashed in a front door and set off a flashbang grenade, pointing guns at a couple and terrifying a 7-year-old boy before realizing they were in the wrong house.