{"id":5079,"date":"2020-04-14T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:48:31","slug":"charlottesville-based-law-firm-files-federal-suit-against-liberty-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Charlottesville based law firm files federal suit against Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lynchburg\u2019s Liberty University is facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit from a Charlottesville-based law firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MichieHamlett Attorneys at Law recently filed the suit in federal court. It states that Liberty University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by closing dining halls, except for limited take-out, moved church services and classes online, canceled student activities, and told students to go home if they could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. claimed the school is open, because not all students could leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc29.com\/2020\/04\/14\/charlottesville-based-law-firm-files-federal-suit-against-liberty-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynchburg&rsquo;s Liberty University is facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit from a Charlottesville-based law firm.<\/p>\n<p>MichieHamlett Attorneys at Law recently filed the suit in federal court. It states that Liberty University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by closing dining halls, except for limited take-out, moved church services and classes online, canceled student activities, and told students to go home if they could.<\/p>\n<p>However, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. claimed the school is open, because not all students could leave.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5079\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charlottesville based law firm files federal suit against Liberty University<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-charlottesville-based-law-firm-files-federal-suit-against-liberty-university","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}