Postal Service v. Konan
Decided February 24, 2026. Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 24-351
Holding
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 Federal Tort Claims Act’s postal exception, 28 U. S. C. §2680(b), can occur as a result of the Postal Service’s intentional failure to deliver the mail.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 5–4.
Majority · 5
- John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Clarence Thomas · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
- Brett M. Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett
Dissenting · 4
- Sonia Sotomayor · filed a dissenting opinion
- Elena Kagan
- Neil M. Gorsuch
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).
Official text
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