Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has declined to cancel a speaking engagement at Rider University, even after plaintiffs in a suit against the school said his appearance would pose a conflict of interest.

Bruce Afran, the attorney for plaintiffs in McMorris v. Rider University  called on Grewal late last month to cancel his scheduled appearance at Rider. Afran had filed an amended complaint naming Grewal as a defendant in the suit, which seeks to halt Rider’s plans to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese company.