United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, en banc · 2019-01-23
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: en banc appeal from dismissal of an ADEA disparate-impact applicant claim; result: claimant-lost; claim:
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
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| /f3d/914/0480-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, en banc · 2019 | Judicial outside-applicant coverage limit where circuit precedent controls | satisfied Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: law The Seventh Circuit en banc majority applies its employee-only reading to an outside applicant’s subsection (a)(2) disparate-impact claim; no result on a subsection (a)(1) treatment claim is inferred. | applicant/outside-employee-impact-coverage | After Dale Kleber unsuccessfully applied for a job at CareFusion CorporationSource: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_914.jsonl#/f3d/914/0480-01; Unicode character offsets [24:100] (end exclusive); SHA-256 30d2e13ce22f23a8cd68b23cbe5a9996abaa1d484ea89b0fe0d5b6469402b2a1.By its terms, § 4(a)(2) proscribes certain conduct by employers and limits its protection to employees.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_914.jsonl#/f3d/914/0480-01; Unicode character offsets [2643:2746] (end exclusive); SHA-256 30d2e13ce22f23a8cd68b23cbe5a9996abaa1d484ea89b0fe0d5b6469402b2a1. |
Court interpretations recorded from this case
interpretation
By its terms, § 4(a)(2) proscribes certain conduct by employers and limits its protection to employees.
/f3d/914/0480-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, en banc · 2019
By its terms, § 4(a)(2) proscribes certain conduct by employers and limits its protection to employees.Source:
docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_914.jsonl#/f3d/914/0480-01; Unicode character offsets [2643:2746] (end exclusive); SHA-256 30d2e13ce22f23a8cd68b23cbe5a9996abaa1d484ea89b0fe0d5b6469402b2a1.Kleber en banc (7th Cir. 2019) excludes outside applicants from §623(a)(2), consistent with the Eleventh Circuit; §623(a)(1) treatment claims for applicants remain available. This jurisdiction-sensitive boundary is part of neutral-practice coverage, not a bar to all ADEA hiring claims.