Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary plans to file a lawsuit against the university.

His attorney, Elliot Strokoff, who is based out of Harrisburg, filed a writ of summons today, and the court notified Penn State of McQueary’s intention to sue.

According to the document, the civil suit is classified as a “whistleblower” case and money damages “outside arbitration limits” are requested. The document did not provide any more information as to why McQueary is filing the lawsuit.

McQueary was placed on administrative leave from the university in November, after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with 52 counts of child sexual abuse. He was not re-hired as a coach when Bill O’Brien took over as head coach following Joe Paterno’s dismissal.

In McQueary’s testimony at a Dec. 16 preliminary hearing for former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Interim Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz, McQueary said he witnessed Sandusky acting inappropriately with a young boy in the Lasch Football Building shower. While McQueary and the prosecution in the Sandusky case initially set the date of the incident at 2002, a judge approved prosecutors’ motion to change the date of this incident to Feb. 9, 2001, according to court documents.

According to his testimony, McQueary said he told former head football coach Paterno what he saw — noting that it was “extremely sexual” but leaving out more graphic details. Paterno, in his own testimony to a grand jury in the Sandusky case read aloud during the Dec. 16 preliminary hearing, said he reported the incident to Curley and Schultz.

Curley and Schultz are charged with perjury and failure to report suspected abuse in connection with the Sandusky case.