Anthony M. Kennedy
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Kennedy Anthony M. Kennedy Justice Kennedy
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy took a different approach that transmission of mail included the ultimate act of delivering mail to a postal customer, the government argued in its Supreme Court brief, adding that Congress had intended the postal exception to insulate the Postal Service from lawsuits for its performance of the quintessentially postal function of directly delivering the mail to a postal patron. He added that since both those terms referred to failings in the postal obligation to deliver mail in a timely manner to the right address, it would be odd if negligent transmission swept far more broadly to include injuries like those alleged here injuries that happen to be caused by postal employees but involve neither failure to transmit mail nor damage to its contents.