A Butler County jury ruled against a former Slippery Rock University supervisor who filed a lawsuit against the school claiming civil rights violations and the government’s whistle-blower protection.

The civil verdict, which was delivered Friday, ruled against Timothy J. Carney in both an age discrimination claim as well as the whistle-blower act claim, following a weeklong trial before county Judge Marilyn Horan.

The lawsuit was filed in early 2012 by Carney, alleging that SRU administrators violated his free speech rights when two SRU employees — Scott Albert, the director of facilities, and Robert Smith, the former president — engaged in age discrimination against him at the university, denied him a “pretermination hearing” after firing him, and fired him in retaliation for exposing irresponsible spending at SRU — a firing Carney claims violated the government’s whistle-blower act, which gives certain protections to employees who expose wrongdoing by their employers.

A full report will appear in the Butler Eagle.