Mealey's (August 21, 2018, 9:38 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Caterpillar Inc.’s liquidation of an unemployment fund and distribution of the monies to workers eligible for retirement who chose to retire and those employees not eligible for retirement did not constitute age discrimination against retirement-eligible workers who continued working, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 20, affirming a trial court’s decision (Timothy O’Brien, et al. v. Caterpillar Inc., No. 17-2956, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 23078)....