The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms didn’t violate a settlement agreement with Jay Dobyns, a former agent whose infiltration of the Hells Angel Motorcycle Club led to dozens of criminal indictments, an appeals court ruled.
The 2007 settlement provided Dobyns with a lump-sum payment to resolve claims that the bureau didn’t appropriately respond to death threats he received from 2004 to 2007.
The bureau’s alleged mishandling of a 2008 arson on Dobyns’s home didn’t constitute a breach because the 2007 settlement didn’t impose any future duties on the bureau concerning safety, Judge Timothy B. Dyk of U.S. Court of ...
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