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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals here in Chicago is known for having an aversion to the typical “bright line” rulings issued by other circuits (and, often, their bosses in D.C.). The judges say they like to think the cases through, instead of adhere to some “easy-to-follow” method spelled out in a previous case that just ends [...]

The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Williams v. Interpublic Severance Pay Plan, No. 07-3146 (dec. April 29.2008) seems straightforward enough. It’s an ERISA case. It’s not very sexy.
But buried in there, underneath the actual legal analysis, are a couple of things worth mentioning.
1. Easterbrook Schools the Academics?Judge Easterbrook focuses the first part of [...]

In our recent post on how overly concerned the Supreme Court seems to be with old people, we pointed out that there were a few other employment cases this term that didn’t have anything to do with those along in years.
While that’s not exactly true (see below), the cases present a couple of age-neutral issues, [...]

Discrimination, of course. Get your minds out of the gutters, seriously.
Honestly, though, a quick Westlaw search pops up 5 pretty salacious cases in the past 30 or so days for the Honorables over on Dearborn Ave. (Well, 4 salacious and 1 Indianapolis case about equal pay for park rangers, but we’ll take it.)
The most noteworthy [...]