Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Alaska)

After a bench trial, a federal district court in Alaska rules that a discharged disabled mail processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service failed to show that he was discharged in retaliation for filing an informal EEO complaint five years earlier and complaining about the terms of his light duty assignment about two years prior to his discharge. The clerk failed to show that the explanations for his discharge—refusal to follow a supervisor’s instructions and violating the rules of conduct by being loud and threatening towards the supervisor—were pretextual, the court found. The case is Rubey v. Brennan, 2019 BL 387687, D. Alaska, 3:17-cv-00076-SLG, 10/9/19