{"id":6099,"date":"2023-08-02T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:36:51","slug":"jerry-falwell-jr-secures-initial-victory-in-legal-clash-with-liberty-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Falwell Jr. Secures Initial Victory in Legal Clash with Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge&#8217;s ruling on Tuesday gave Jerry Falwell Jr. his first win in his legal battle against Liberty University.<\/p>\n<p>Fallwell claims the school owes him more than $8.5 million in denied retirement benefits after his time working at the president of the school.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty said they were duped when they signed the retirement agreement because Falwell knew when he signed the deal that the story would break soon regarding his scandal involving a pool attendant.<\/p>\n<p>Now the case will proceed into federal court. It&#8217;s not the only recent source of legal tension between Falwell and the school where he formerly sat as president.<\/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:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/jerry-falwell-jr-scores-first-win-in-legal-battle-against-liberty-university-retirement-benefits-pool-attendant-scandal-august-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge&#8217;s ruling on Tuesday gave Jerry Falwell Jr. his first win in his legal battle against Liberty University.<\/p>\n<p>Fallwell claims &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6099\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry Falwell Jr. Secures Initial Victory in Legal Clash with 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":[443],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-jerry-falwell-jr-secures-initial-victory-in-legal-clash-with-liberty-university","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1An","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","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=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}