{"id":64970,"date":"2026-10-08T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64970"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:56:05","slug":"ca11-wrong-house-raid-suit-barred-by-ftca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64970","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Wrong-house raid suit barred by FTCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Supposedly relying on a personal GPS device, the FBI SWAT team raided the wrong house, three houses from the target location and on a different street. The FTCA suit is barred under the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. The officer, however, does not get qualified immunity on his separate claim. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/202310062.op2.pdf\">Martin v. United States<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 30717 (11th Cir. Oct. 7, 2026) (an example of hard cases make bad law):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We therefore conclude that, under our precedent, the plaintiffs&#8217; FTCA claims are based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function&#8221; by a federal government employee. See 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2680(a). In the end, &#8220;the power to waive the federal government&#8217;s immunity is Congress'[ ] prerogative, not ours[.]&#8221; Dep&#8217;t of Agric. Rural Dev. Rural Hous. Serv. v. Kirtz, 601 U.S. 42, 48 (2024). We, as a three-judge panel, cannot contort or disregard our precedents in Shivers and in Mesa to provide Mr. Cliatt, Ms. Martin, or her son with recourse under the FTCA.<a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly relying on a personal GPS device, the FBI SWAT team raided the wrong house, three houses from the target location and on a different street. The FTCA suit is barred under the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-tort-claims-act","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64972,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64970\/revisions\/64972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}