Legal Opinion
Dolan v. United States Postal Service
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 22, 2006No. 04-848PublishedCited by 565 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
Each day, according to the Government’s submissions here, the United States Postal Service delivers some 660 million pieces of mail to as many as 142 million delivery points. This case involves one such delivery point — petitioner Barbara Dolan’s porch — where mail left by postal employees allegedly caused her to trip and fall. Claiming injuries as a result, Dolan filed a claim for administrative relief from the Postal Service. When her claim was denied, she and her husband (whose claim for loss of consortium the Dolans later conceded was barred for failure to exhaust administrative remedies)…
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