the supreme court issued a few opinions today, one of which was one siding with a woman in a case against the postal service wherein she slipped and fell on a bunch of packages left on her doorstop. the merits of that case aside, i found this excerpt from a medill article on the case funny:

On Aug. 25, 2001, a postal worker deposited the mail on the porch of Barbara Dolan's Pennsylvania home. The pile left behind consisted of letters, packages and magazines.

Later, Dolan slipped and fell on the mail and suffered injuries as a result of the fall. She filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Postal Service, which was denied on April 18, 2002.

Six months later, Dolan filed a complaint under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the USPS with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Her husband, Michael Dolan, also filed an FTCA claim stating that his wife's injuries had precluded her from fully performing her spousal role.

let's hope dolan's idea of what duties comprise a spousal role aren't anything like this guy's.