Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel October 26, 2011 (Potential Litigation Between the Department of Labor and the United States Postal Service)

Potential Litigation Between the Department of Labor

and the United States Postal Service

The Attorney General has authority under 39 U.S.C. § 409(g)(2) to allow the United

States Postal Service to direct its own defense of a suit filed against it by the Depart-

ment of Labor, alleging that USPS has violated a whistleblower provision of the Oc-

cupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.