{"id":5920,"date":"2023-04-05T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:20:01","slug":"liberty-university-rips-falwells-retirement-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5920","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University Rips Falwell\u2019s Retirement Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr.&#8217;s federal lawsuit seeking $8.6 million from Liberty University Inc. should be dismissed in favor of state court litigation accusing him of scheming to boost his compensation before news of a sex scandal broke, the school argued.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell&rsquo;s potential entitlement to benefits under a supplemental executive retirement plan is being litigated in Virginia state court and can&rsquo;t be raised in a separate and later-filed federal action, Liberty said in a motion to dismiss filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IcrDI4P8rgg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/employee-benefits\/liberty-university-rips-falwells-8-6-million-retirement-suit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr.&#8217;s federal lawsuit seeking $8.6 million from Liberty University Inc. should be dismissed in favor of state court litigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5920\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University Rips Falwell\u2019s Retirement Suit<\/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":[412],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-rips-falwells-retirement-suit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","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=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}