Forum
U.S. Supreme Court
Case Status
Docket Number
Term
2025 Term
Lower Court Opinion
Questions Presented
Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and violated military orders?
Case Updates
Without disturbing its holding in Boyle v. United Techs. Corp., Supreme Court holds that Federal Tort Claims Act’s combatant-activities exception does not preempt state tort claims against federal contractors where the federal government neither ordered nor authorized the challenged conduct
April 22, 2026
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to hold that the Federal Tort Claims Act’s combatant-activities exception applies to federal contractors and to not disturb its holding in Boyle v. United Techs. Corp.
September 22, 2025
Elbert Lin, Maya M. Eckstein, and David M. Parker of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP served as outside counsel.