Rios-Pineiro v. United States

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff William Ríos-Piñeiro appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the United States in this Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) action. The United States Postal Service (“USPS”) terminated Rios’s employment contract after concluding that he had stolen mail containing money. Rios sued the United States in the District Court of Puerto Rico over the events relating to that contract termination. After careful review of the summary judgment record, we affirm.

I. Background

We assess the record that was before the district court on the motion for…