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Does an employment job application asking criminal history 7 year rule apply to felony conviction?

We live in California: my friend asked me a question I am not intelligent enough to answer. The question is, he was convicted of a felony in 1989 it was federal not state and then sentenced 1991 of January did jail time for about 7 years and 10 months for drugs then he was released and started supervised release until 2002 of February completing it with no incidents then the supervised release ended. He has had alot of jobs along the way and is a hard worker and now he has applied for a job a few weeks ago where the employer's application asked have you been convicted of a felony in the last (7 years)? naturally his answer was no which is the truth! so then he was taken to their own building not law enforcement and did a finger print scan to send off to the Department Of Justice to verify this, he noticed the form had two check off boxes one the official paper work that had check boxes (DOJ) was checked Department Of Justice. The other was not check off (FBI) so what is normally believed is that if a person is ask on an application whether they were convicted of a felony in the last 7 years by law that information cant be excepted or viewed by the company requesting more further than 7 years prior to the year 2008. If this is seen anyway and my friend is dismissed wouldn't that be illegal? aren't there laws that are made to protect a person that did his punishment and came back out to society and has been working and abiding by the law all these years, doesn't he have a right to live as anyone else that abides by the law too? or is it just OK for the president to pardon felons friends of his which is OK but what about us citizens? don't we have the same opportunities are at least if not pardoned given another chance at life! This person was younger and made an unintelligent decision and did not murder someone. Anyway the question is will the past come back to haunt him? is it ethical for a company to acquire records that they propose not to be concerned with and is it legally binding for the company not to go any further back than the prescribed 7 years? is there a chance of a law suit against the company if they get the report back with a conviction record and dismiss him? this is a privet owned company not state owned and provides transportation for citizens.

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