Easha Anand, representing Konan, disputed that claim, contending that it’s “rare” to experience the kind of long-term mistreatment that Konan experienced. She added that the government made a similar slippery slope argument when the court last heard a case on the postal exception and held that a woman could sue the USPS after tripping over mail that was left on her porch. That decision didn’t lead to an avalanche of new lawsuits over the past two decades, as the government predicted it would, Anand said.