Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the FTCA's exception bar tort claims for negligent federal law enforcement actions during a wrong-house raid

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Petitioners are the innocent victims of a wronghouse raid conducted by an FBI SWAT team in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking a remedy for torts committed against them, Petitioners brought a cause of action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. In its opinion below, the Eleventh Circuit held that all of Petitioners’ FTCA claims are barred by sovereign immunity supplied either through the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause or the FTCA’s exception. In one or more ways, the opinion below conflicts with decisions from every other circuit. The questions presented are: 1. Whether the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause bars claims under the FTCA—a federal statute enacted by Congress—when the negligent or wrongful acts of federal employees “have some nexus with furthering federal policy and can reasonably be characterized as complying with the full range of federal law.” Pet. App. 17a (quotation omitted). 2. Whether the FTCA’s exception bars claims for torts arising from wrong-house raids and similar negligent or wrongful acts by federal employees.