A federal court sided with the U.S. Postal Service after a manager claimed her FMLA leave was disrupted and her career derailed by age discrimination.
On April 23, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia entered judgment against Ella Vick, a former Manager of Distribution Operations at the Postal Service’s Curseen Morris Processing and Distribution Center in Washington, D.C. The ruling disposed of Vick’s remaining claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, after a jury had already found in favor of the Postal Service on her Title VII claims following a six-day trial in August 2022.
The facts of the case read like a cautionary tale about what happens when internal communication breaks down during an employee’s protected leave – and how documentation, or the lack of it, can shape the outcome of an employment dispute for years.
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