Rutgers Professor Lacks Proof Disability Caused Promotion Denial

A jury couldn’t find New Jersey’s Rutgers University refused to promote a professor to its highest ranks because of his vision-related disability rather than his lack of qualifications, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.

Prof. Briance Mascarenhas failed to establish he was improperly denied a trial on his claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act because a jury couldn’t find in his favor, the court said in an unpublished ruling.

The university said it decided he wasn’t ready to be a professor II because he hadn’t received any awards or prizes reflecting his attainment of the level of national or international ...