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HURST v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

No. 78-1053.

586 F.2d 1197 (1978)

William D. HURST, Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 25, 1978.

As Modified December 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Taylor of Taylor & Murphy, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

Gregg R. Sackrider, Asst. Regional Labor Counsel, Law Dept., Chicago, Ill., argued, Ronald S. Reed, Jr., U. S. Atty. and Richard H. Zehring, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., on brief, for appellee.

Before STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge, INGRAHAM, Senior Circuit Judge, and HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

INGRAHAM, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case arose out of the discharge of a United States Post Office Department employee, not for the manner in which he handled the mail, but for the content of a letter which he authored. William D. Hurst, a postal clerk at the Kansas City, Missouri, General Post Office, was fired for writing a vulgar, obscene and threatening letter to then President Richard M. Nixon. Almost five years after he had exhausted administrative remedies...

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