Postal Service v. Konan · ¶2
Held: The United States retains sovereign immunity for claims arising out of the intentional nondelivery of mail because both “miscarriage” and “loss” of mail under the FTCA’s postal exception can occur as a result of the Postal Service’s intentional failure to deliver the mail.Pp. 398–406. (a) The postal exception reflects Congress’s judgment that redress for “harms” of “the sort primarily identified with the Postal Service’s func- tion of transporting mail throughout the United States” should not come from potentially burdensome tort suits.Dolan v. Postal Service, 546 U. S. 481, 489.P. 398. (b) Both “miscarriage” and “loss” of mail under the postal exception can occur as a result of the Postal Service’s intentional failure to deliver the mail.Pp. 399–404 (1) The Court interprets statutory terms according to the ordinary meanings they had when they were enacted.Wisconsin Central Ltd. v.…Read in context ›
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