Mealey's (May 10, 2023, 1:33 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Affirming summary judgment against laid-off Northrop Grumman Corp. employees in a long-running class action, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that the terms of an Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan allowed severance benefits to be awarded on a discretionary basis and that rescinding assignment to a magistrate judge was not an abuse of discretion....