Mealey's (February 10, 2022, 9:02 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A trial court properly dismissed a former employee’s claims of age discrimination and civil rights violations for unlawful discharge because she did not show a link between her former employer’s company policy related to terminations and her membership in a protected class, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Jan. 19 while sounding “a soft note of concern” that the trial court applied “a pleading standard beyond that imposed by Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court precedent.”...