How a mail delivery dispute made it to the Supreme Court

How a mail delivery dispute made it to the Supreme Court

On Oct. 8 in U.S. Postal Service v. Konan, the court will weigh in on a disagreement among the federal courts of appeals over when the government can be sued over undelivered mail in a case that likely will come down to the justices’ interpretation of two words: “loss” and “miscarriage.” The dispute began when a landlady named Lebene Konan realized that the mailbox key for one of her two properties in Euless, Texas, no longer worked. As a result…