Legal Opinion
Traci Cannon-Stokes v. John E. Potter, Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 2006No. 05-4605PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Traci Cannon-Stokes contends that the Postal Service, which hired her as a letter carrier, violated the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 791, by not accommodating her mental aversion to making residential deliveries and by retaliating against her for asserting her statutory rights. At the same time as Cannon-Stokes was pursuing an administrative claim for $300,000 from the Postal Service, she filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition asserting that she had no assets; her petition expressly denied that she had any valuable legal claims (“contingent and unliquidated claims…
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