For all you frequent flyers, file this under news you can use: If you ever find yourself at the mercy of abusive TSA officers who break your possessions and falsely accuse you of assault, you’ve now got legal recourse.

For that you can thank McDermott Will & Emery’s Paul Thompson, Matthew Knowles, Alexander Kritikos, Sarah Hogarth and Le Chen. Working pro bono, they just won an en banc decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which held that sovereign immunity is waived for certain intentional torts committed by transportation security officers, or TSOs.