USPS Must Again Face Lawsuit Alleging Refusal to Deliver Mail

The US Postal Service must again defend itself against a Texas property owner’s suit alleging that it unlawfully refused to deliver mail to two residences, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday.

A federal district court dismissed Lebene Konan’s suit alleging tortious interference with prospective business relations, nuisance, and other claims for lack jurisdiction, finding that the suit was barred by sovereign immunity based on the postal-matter exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act.

But the postal-matter exception to the act’s immunity waiver doesn’t apply to intentional acts, Judge Dana M. Douglas of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...