Ex-Rutgers Security Guard Fails to Revive Bias Suit on Appeal

A former Rutgers University employee lost her appeal seeking to reverse a lower court’s ruling in favor of the university and top school police officials in her employment discrimination suit.

There’s no issue with the trial court’s finding that Carol Jackson failed to provide any evidence of discriminatory intent underlying Rutgers’ actions during the investigations and the decision to terminate her, the New Jersey Superior Court ruled Friday.

Jackson, a Black woman who worked as a security guard at Rutgers, sued the university after she was fired over allegedly providing misleading information during internal investigations into a report that ...