{"id":5570,"date":"2021-11-09T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2021-11-09T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:34:02","slug":"liberty-university-files-restraining-order-against-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University files restraining order against &#8216;whistleblower&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University is asking a federal court to stop a former employee from disclosing confidential information and documents amid a legal battle over claims that the evangelical Christian school wrongfully fired him for speaking out about how it handled sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Lamb, formerly the school&rsquo;s senior vice president of communications, sued the Lynchburg-based university and claimed that he was dismissed because he expressed concern over how Liberty officials handled sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty filed a request for a temporary restraining order last Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia against Lamb, arguing that he is still bound to his confidentiality agreement with the university.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bari Weiss is emulating Jerry Falwell and his Liberty University, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onesarahjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@onesarahjones<\/a> writes: \u201cThese schools exist exist as laboratories for right-wing thought; they are committed not to free expression but to indoctrination. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uaustinorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uaustinorg<\/a> will be no different.\u201d<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8PB5OktnO\">https:\/\/t.co\/C8PB5OktnO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jamil Smith \u062c\u0645\u064a\u0644 \u0643\u0631\u064a\u0645 (@JamilSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamilSmith\/status\/1457824574905765900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe only transparency we\u2019re seeing here is that this is a transparent attempt for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibertyU<\/a> to protect itself&#8230; what the school needs is an audit of structure, culture, and policy.\u201d -Save71\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kfaithcovington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kfaithcovington<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MkLbYN7lNT\">https:\/\/t.co\/MkLbYN7lNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Save71 (@save71LU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/save71LU\/status\/1457862437689040897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/us\/liberty-university-files-restraining-order-against-title-ix-whistleblower-wrongful-firing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University is asking a federal court to stop a former employee from disclosing confidential information and documents amid a legal b&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5570\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University files restraining order against &#8216;whistleblower&#8217;<\/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":[232],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-files-restraining-order-against-whistleblower","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1rQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}