Walter D. McGuinness v. United States Postal Service, Felix J. Jackson, and A.A. Winslow, Defendants

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1984-10-05

Cited by 131 later decision(s) in our corpus · see the citation network in Lexace

Open in Lexace · Ask the AI about this case

From the opinion

POSNER, Circuit Judge. McGuinness applied for a job as a postman with the Milwaukee office of the Postal Service. The Service’s acting director of employee and labor relations (Jackson) turned him down on the ground that McGuinness’s flat feet and hammer toes made him physically unfit for the job, which requires eight hours a day of standing, walking, and lifting. McGuinness a…

Read the full opinion (source) ↗


Lexace provides legal information, not legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship is created. Citation figures are counts of later citing opinions in our corpus and may be incomplete; always read and Shepardize the full opinion before relying on it.