7th Circuit Reinstates Fired Legal Assistant’s Age-Bias, Retaliation Claims

Mealey's (September 25, 2017, 1:20 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 21 vacated a trial court’s dismissal of a legal assistant’s age-bias and retaliation claims, finding that plausible claims were presented, but affirmed the dismissal of a defamation claim based on the expiration of the one-year statute of limitations (Patricia Clark v. Law Office of Terrence Kennedy, Jr., No. 15-11890, 7th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18245)....