Federal Court rejects Fired Disabled Postal Clerk’s Retaliation suit

October 9, 2019 Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Alaska) After a bench trial, a federal district court in Alaska rules that a discharged disabled mail processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service failed to show that he was discharged in retaliation for filing an informal EEO complaint five years earlier and complaining about the terms of […]

Postal Supervisor Wins $1.1 Million in Disability Case against USPS over handicap parking space

1/23/2018 – Former USPS Maintenance Supervisor Anthony Sansone, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, was awarded $1,128,774 in damages in a disability discrimination lawsuit brought against USPS. On Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, Senior US District Court Judge Milton Shadur awarded Mr. Sansone $828,744 in lost wages; this is in addition to an earlier […]

California Postal Worker sues USPS for disability discrimination, retaliation, disclosing medical records

San Francisco, CA (Law Firm Newswire) December 19, 2016 – A former letter carrier who worked at the Sausalito, California, branch of the United States Postal Service (USPS) for over two decades filed a lawsuit alleging disability discrimination and retaliation. The USPS was also accused of improperly disclosing his confidential medical records, according to the […]

Editorial: Traps in the Pittman vs. USPS EEO Settlement

On May 5, 2014, the Postal Service mailed to RJ Pittman (aka Edmond Walker) EEO class members a Claim Form and Release. Buried in the Release are some severe consequences to be aware of. Pittman EEO class members consist of disabled employees in permanent rehabilitation assignments/limited duty positions whose duty hours during the period from […]