MLINARCHIK v. BRENNAN
Filing
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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER granting in part and denying in part 20 Motion to Dismiss. The Court denies as moot Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Amended Complaint based on improper service of process because Plaintiff has since cured her defective service; The Court grants Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's ADA claim; The Court grants Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Title VII claim; Plaintiff's Rehabilitation Act claim will not be dismissed, and as more fully stated in said Memorandum Opinion and Order. Signed by Judge Kim R. Gibson on 1/9/2018. (dlg)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
ANNA MARIE MLINARCHIK,
CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:16-257
Plaintiff,
JUDGE KIM R. GIBSON
v.
MEGAN BRENNAN, POST MASTER
GENERAL, UNITED STATES POSTAL
SERVICE,
Defendant.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
I.
Introduction
Pending before the Court is a Motion to Dismiss filed by Defendant Megan Brennan, the
Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service ("USPS"). (ECF No. 20.) The Motion has
been fully briefed (see ECF Nos. 21, 26) and is ripe for disposition. For the reasons that follow, the
Court will GRANT IN PART and DENY IN PART Defendant's Motion to Dismiss.
II.
Jurisdiction
Because
Plaintiff's
claims
arise
under
federal
law,
this
Court has
subject-
matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331. Venue is proper because the events giving rise
to Plaintiff's claims occurred in the Western District of Pennsylvania. 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b)(2).
III.
Background1
This case arises from Plaintiff's employment with USPS. Plaintiff has worked as a Mail
Processing Clerk for USPS for over 30 years. (ECF No. 19 at 'll 9.) In August 2011, Plaintiff
The following allegations are derived from Plaintiff's Amended Complaint (ECF No. 19). The Court
accepts these facts as true for the sole purpose of deciding the pending Motion to Dismiss.
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underwent MRI imaging which indicated "residual effects of right temporal craniotomy, with
right internal auditory canal decompression of an acoustic neuroma." (Id. at
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