Supreme Court takes USPS appeal over black woman's bias claims

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case brought by a Texas woman who claims the U.S. Postal Service refused to deliver her mail due to her race, setting up a new test of when people can sue the federal government.

Lebene Konan, a black real estate agent and insurance broker in the Dallas area, alleges postal workers intentionally withheld mail to two of her rental properties after changing her P.O. box lock — asserting they did not “like the idea that a black person” owned them, according to her petition to the nine justices.