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McGUINNESS v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

No. 83-2771.

744 F.2d 1318 (1984)

Walter D. McGUINNESS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Felix J. Jackson, and A.A. Winslow, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Eichfeld, Swartwout & Eichfeld, S.C., Sara Lee Johann, New Berlin, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Nancy T. Forden, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

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 appealed to Winslow, the general manager of the Postal Service's employee relations division...

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