Mealey's (August 14, 2017, 1:19 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 10 affirmed that a woman’s Illinois state law wage claim is completely preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because she could have brought her claim under ERISA and because her claims did not implicate a legal duty independent of ERISA (Heather Studer v. Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, No. 16-3728, 7th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 14800)....