Denise Coleman v. Patrick R. Donaho
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
In 2006, the United States Postal Service terminated plaintiff Denise Coleman’s 32 years of employment as a mail process ing clerk. The Postal Service contends that it fired Coleman because she told her psychiatrist she was having thoughts of killing her supervisor, and it believed she posed a danger to her fellow employees. Coleman alleges that her termination was discriminatory (she is African American and a woman) and retaliatory (she had previously complained, both formally and informally, of discriminatory treatment). In support of her disparate treatment claims…
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