Federal age-bias protections do not extend to outside job applicants but only to employees, a healthcare company told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in rebutting claims from a 58-year-old lawyer who was not hired for an in-house legal post.

The lawyer, Dale Kleber, who applied for a senior counsel position at San Diego-based CareFusion Corp., filed claims under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. New Jersey-based medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Co. is the parent of CareFusion.

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