Legal Opinion
Beatrice Fleming v. United States Postal Service Amf O'Hare and Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 16, 1994No. 92-2735PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, a black woman who suffers from schizophrenia and a hearing impairment, was fired by the Postal Service in 1986. She filed a charge with the EEOC alleging breach of contract, retaliatory discharge, and discrimination on grounds of race, sex, and handicap, and later this suit repeating these charges. The Postal Service offered to settle the suit for $50,000 plus attorney’s fee's of $25,000. At a hearing before the district judge Fleming said that the offer was “really not sitting in complete agreement with” her because she had lost more than $200,000 in wages…
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