Overview
- The March 3 filing in the Northern District of Georgia names Chief Judge Leigh Martin May, Judge Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty, and the court itself as defendants.
- The complaint alleges federal, state, and local actors joined a racketeering scheme to conceal what the family describes as a 2013 premeditated murder.
- The Johnsons seek $5 billion in compensatory and $5 billion in punitive damages, request a jury trial, and contend the judges acted without jurisdiction.
- In a separate case, the court recently dismissed the family’s $1 billion lawsuit, citing Eleventh Amendment immunity, improper service on Lowndes County, and statutes of limitation.
- The parents have filed an appeal of that dismissal and continue to dispute the official ruling of accidental positional asphyxia, citing an FBI file note about an autopsy and photos they say show blunt‑force trauma.