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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