A Pennsylvania judge is denying Penn State University’s request to put on hold former assistant coach Mike McQueary's lawsuit until related criminal cases are resolved.

Judge Thomas Gavin's order issued Thursday said the criminal cases "impose no burden on Penn State" because it is neither a prosecutor or defendant in the cases against former university administrators Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz.

McQueary, who testified in June he complained to then-coach Joe Paterno after seeing Jerry Sandusky naked in a shower with a boy, is pursuing a whistleblower and defamation case against the school.

Penn State spokesman Dave La Torre declined comment, and McQueary lawyer Elliott Strokoff didn't immediately return a message.

Sandusky is serving a decades-long prison sentence after his conviction for sexual abuse of 10 boys.

In the meantime, an eastern Pennsylvania congressman is unhappy with how the NCAA president responded to the state delegation's request to keep $60 million in Penn State fine money for the Sandusky child molestation scandal entirely to causes within the commonwealth.

Rep. Charlie Dent said Thursday in a statement that NCAA leader Mark Emmert's response was "unacceptable and unsatisfactory."

Dent's office released a copy of Emmert's reply to the state's U.S. House delegation letter last month. Emmert noted a task force has been charged to allocate at least 25 percent of the fine money to programs in Pennsylvania.

The NCAA is a governing body for college athletics. The fine was part of the NCAA's sanctions on the school for its handling of the scandal involving Sandusky.