Legal Opinion
Fuqua v. United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 5, 2015No. 15-1054PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Leonard Fuqua, a former employee of the United States Postal Service, appeals the jurisdictional dismissal of his suit charging USPS with emotional distress related to his firing. We vacate and remand.
Fuqua was employed as a mail handler at the Postal Service’s O’Hare Airport Air Mail Center. In 2010 the Postal Service decided to downsize the O’Hare Center, and Fuqua was forced to transfer. He was asked to bid for placement at a number of other duty stations, but none was within 30 miles of his home in suburban Chicago. Eventually he was assigned to a mail center in Kansas City. He…
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