(September 6, 2017, 1:29 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A human resources manager who hid and then lied about her intimate relationship with an employee whom she helped hire and then supervise failed to show that gender discrimination and retaliation caused her firing rather than her false statements and other performance issues, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 31 (Jamie Owens v. Old Wisconsin Sausage Company, Incorporated, No. 16-3875, 7th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16797)....