Michael Y. Scudder during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be U.S. circuit judge for the Seventh Circuit, on March 21, 2018. Photo by Diego Radzinschi. US Appeals Court Restricts Age-Bias Claims to Employees, Not Job Applicants
"Congress, of course, remains free to do what the judiciary cannot—extend [the law] to outside job applicants," Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder wrote for the majority. The case involved a lawyer seeking an in-house post at a medical supply company.
January 23, 2019 at 06:28 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Updated Jan. 24
A divided federal appeals court Wednesday issued a broad decision rejecting claims from a lawyer that he should be allowed as a job applicant to bring age-discrimination claims for an in-house position he was not offered.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld a trial judge's ruling that said Illinois lawyer Dale Kleber could not bring “disparate impact liability” claims against a company that declined to hire him.
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