No. 24-362October Term 2024Decided Jun 12, 2025
Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al., Petitioners v. United States, et al.
This case involves a lawsuit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) after FBI agents mistakenly executed a no-knock search warrant at the wrong home.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Jun 12, 2025
- What it's about
This case involves a lawsuit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) after FBI agents mistakenly executed a no-knock search warrant at the wrong home. The Supreme Court addressed whether the Supremacy Clause provides the government a defense in such suits and whether the FTCA's "law enforcement proviso" overrides the Act's discretionary-function exception.
Question presented
1. Does the Supremacy Clause prevent individuals from suing the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act when federal employees’ actions, even if negligent or wrongful, are related to carrying out federal policy and can be interpreted as following federal laws? 2. Is the discretionary-function exception, which usually protects the government from being sued for certain decisions made by its employees, always inapplicable when dealing with claims related to law enforcement officers’ actions that fall under the intentional torts category?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit / Decision released Jun 12, 2025
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Mar 31, 2026
- Method
- Methodology
Primary materials9
Supreme Court docket 24-362
docket | Mar 31, 2026
Primary case document
Supreme Court document | Mar 31, 2026
CourtListener docket record
docket | Mar 31, 2026
Questions Presented
brief | Mar 31, 2026
opinion
opinion | Jun 12, 2025
Martin
opinion | Jun 12, 2025
Oral Arguments - Martin
audio | Apr 29, 2025
Petition
brief | Sep 27, 2024
Lower Court Orders/Opinions
order | Jul 18, 2024