{"id":5615,"date":"2022-02-19T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2022-02-19T18:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:21:43","slug":"liberty-university-jerry-falwell-jr-return-to-court-for-count-to-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5615","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Jr. return to court, for count to be dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&rsquo;s proceedings surrounded a Falwell motion to get one of the counts in that lawsuit against him &#8211; breach of fiduciary duty &#8211; dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>After some back and forth, Judge James Watson said he&rsquo;ll take the matter under advisement for now.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Falwell filed a counterclaim to Liberty&rsquo;s lawsuit in October 2021, alleging defamation, breach of employment agreement and several property-related claims.<\/p>\n<p>In that counterclaim, he seeks to be awarded an unspecified amount in damages and enjoin Liberty from retaining property he claims as his.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rfTX2fU-VdM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2022\/02\/18\/liberty-university-jerry-falwell-jr-return-court-over-motion-have-count-dismissed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&rsquo;s proceedings surrounded a Falwell motion to get one of the counts in that lawsuit against him &#8211; breach of fiduciary duty &#8211; dis&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5615\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Jr. return to court, for count to be dismissed<\/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":[248],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-jerry-falwell-jr-return-to-court-for-count-to-be-dismissed","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","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=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}