Sergey Aleynikov, a former vice president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who was convicted of stealing computer code from the company, has lost a second attempt to make his former employer pay the legal fees from his defense.

Aleynikov, who lost at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a prior bid to get the company to pay his bills in 2013, claimed this time around that a recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision concerning the doctrine of contra proferentem was a supervening statement that warranted reconsideration of the appeals court’s first decision.