While Congress has spent some time chewing over “Operation Fast and Furious”—a plan in which federal agents purposely allowed suspected arms smugglers to purchase and walk illegal firearms into Mexico—so has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a recent decision over a discovery dispute.
The case, Mary M. Zapata v. Kenneth Melson, involves an appeal by 10 defendant federal agents. The plaintiffs are family members of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] special agents—one of whom was killed, the other seriously injured—when they were ambushed and shot by drug cartel members in Mexico, according to the decision.
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