Michael Wartell led the Fort Wayne, Indiana, campus of Purdue University for 18 years.
Michael Wartell has sued the university in state and federal courts over being forced to retire at age 65 as leader of the Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne campus in 2011.
Wartell is claiming discrimination and harassment by the university under then-President France Cordova.
Purdue lawyers on Tuesday asked federal Judge Robert Miller Jr. for permission to keep the all or part of the report secret, saying it contains confidential information, The Journal Gazette reported.
Miller ruled last week the report by investigator John Trimble needed to be given to Wartell’s lawyers. The judge said Trimble didn’t tell Wartell he was an attorney for Purdue, an indication that Trimble was acting as an investigator.
Purdue’s attorneys have asked the judge for a protective order, under which the report would be disclosed only to the parties in the lawsuit and kept from anyone else.
“Purdue believes that the Trimble Report contains confidential, private information, including related to third parties, necessitating a protective order,” the Purdue attorneys wrote.
