A former employee who claimed his termination from a division of the credit rating firm Moody’s was retribution for taking time off to deal with a cancer diagnosis saw the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirm a lower court’s dismissal of his claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act Friday.

Gregory Clemens sued Moody’s Analytics after he was terminated in 2016 following an internal investigation that recommended the company do so. Investigators said they found Clemens had falsified work claims in an attempt to meet the criteria needed for a yearly commission bonus of approximately $100,000.