State lawyers successfully moved the case to federal court and a judge in May dismissed the state from the lawsuit but allowed charges against the seven agents on the scene that night to proceed.

The encounter and night Daly spent in jail left her terrified and unable to sleep, the 47-page suit said. One agent drew his gun and another tried to shatter a window in Daly’s SUV with a flashlight, according to an ABC account.

Authorities charged Daly with assaulting two of the agents she grazed with her Chevrolet TrailBlazer as she drove away. She pulled over moments later after a 911 dispatcher advised the women that the agents were law enforcement officers.

The filing also alleged that ABC agents mocked Daly’s response later that month before a gathering of about 100 students at a UVa sorority house.

“The agents said the ‘poor girl’ … now faced felony charges and was in trouble and made [Daly] sound dumb and silly for being confused,” the filing states.

News of her arrest sparked a national outcry and elicited scrutiny of an agency that previously had operated largely out of the public spotlight.