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Liberty Law to celebrate 20 years of Christian legal education during Founder’s Day Weekend

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August 27, 2024 : By Office of Communications & Public Engagement

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Liberty University School of Law invites the Liberty community to commemorate its 20-year anniversary on Founder’s Day Weekend, Aug. 30-31.

Since its founding in 2004 with 60 students, Liberty Law has trained over 1,200 professionals to enter their fields practice-ready with a biblical foundation. Graduates are serving in many areas such as private practice, government service, and in business and corporate settings. Liberty Law alumni are working as prosecutors, public defenders, judges, and in elected office, as well as arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Today, the law school enrolls over 275 students studying in 12 areas of study , fulfilling the vision of Liberty’s founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell, in sending professionals into the world to impact their workplaces and communities as Champions for Christ .

Liberty Law received full accreditation by the American Bar Association (ABA) in 2010 after receiving provisional approval in 2006, a record pace for law schools at the time. In 2023, Liberty Law was recognized by preLaw Magazine as the “Most Devout Law School,” and Liberty Law has been named one of the nation’s 2024-25 “Moot Court Leaders.”

In its history, Liberty Law has had bar passage rates as high as 96.88% and has a recent employment rate of 91%, maintaining its commitment to the Christian faith while providing students with the skills necessary to excel in their legal careers.

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Liberty Law has invited all of those who have contributed to the law school’s success, including its graduates, to Founder’s Day Weekend. The weekend kicks off with Liberty’s Convocation on Friday, Aug. 30, where there will be a special recognition for the law school’s 20 th anniversary and a message from former attorney and anchor of “Fox News Sunday” Shannon Bream, a 1993 Liberty alumna. Later that day at 2 p.m., Liberty Law will hold a law school symposium titled “The Vision and Importance of Liberty Law and Christian Legal Education” in the law school’s Supreme Courtroom. The symposium will highlight the impact of Liberty Law, its alumni, and will discuss the importance of the Christian worldview within legal education.

A special Founder’s Day Alumni Dinner will be held on Friday night and registered guests are invited to a tailgate/open house before the Liberty Flames Football game on Saturday.

School of Law Interim Dean Timothy Todd said the weekend will be a special time to welcome alumni and their families as they commemorate this milestone.

“We are excited to celebrate 20 years of God’s faithfulness at Liberty Law,” he said. “Our alumni are living out the mission of Liberty University, and we look forward to celebrating them and honoring Dr. Falwell’s vision of founding a law school that would train Champions for Christ. ”

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'Weaponization of the Liberty Way:' LU punishes women reporting sex assaults, lawsuit says

by Cynthia Beasley

The stages are being set at Williams Stadium and the Academic Lawn for the two venues to host a total of 25 in-person degree presentation ceremonies in Liberty University’s 48th Commencement exercises. (Credit: LU)

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — A 15-year-old reported being sexually assaulted at a Liberty University camp, according to a lawsuit, but university police blamed her for violating the “Liberty Way” and needlessly had her strip naked and spread her butt cheeks for a photograph.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Eastern of New York, says that during the 2000 incident, Liberty threatened to charge the teenager with filing a false report, made her ride in a police car with her alleged attacker and questioned her without water or food for eight hours — all while failing to properly investigate her alleged attacker: Jesse Matthew, Jr., who went on to murder two college students years later.

In advance of being filed, the lawsuit was provided to ABC13’s Cynthia Beasley, who has been investigating for a year-and-a-half allegations that Liberty University violated Title IX rules, repeatedly threatened victims with honor code violations and downplayed sexual assault allegations.

Twelve anonymous women, most of whom are former Liberty University employees or students, have signed onto the lawsuit that claims the university “enabled on-campus rapes” and suppressed complaints of sexual assault and rape.

While most of the alleged incidents took place while Jerry Falwell Jr. was president, not all did, including the 2000 incident allegedly involving multi-murderer Jesse Matthew. Falwell, who was Liberty's president from 2007 through 2020, resigned last year amid a storm of controversy, including alleged sexual improprieties, alcohol impairment, hypocrisies and questions about unusual business dealings.

RELATED: Breaking down the timeline of Falwell Jr.'s resignation as president of LU

"It just boggles my mind, that these people who claim to be Christians, cared more about covering it up than they cared about actually helping me," one plaintiff, Jane Doe 2, said in an interview.

Known as Jane Doe 2 in the lawsuit, the woman said she was sexually assaulted, reported it to Liberty, stalked by the same man, reported that to Liberty, and ultimately gang-raped – which she again reported to Liberty. However, there was no Title IX investigation or criminal charges, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit claims that Liberty University silenced and sometimes punished these women under their honor code, “The Liberty Way.” The newest version of the “Liberty Way” honor code is not public, but the 2020 version can be found online. That document states that the university can issue “points” to students for breaking the “Liberty Way,” potentially making them pay a fine and perform community service hours. For example, the document online says they could fine students $300 for drinking alcohol or spending the night with a member of the opposite sex.

In addition to favoring the claims of the accused over women accusers -- including in cases when the female students provided evidence, such as text messages and pictures of bruises — the lawsuit also claims Liberty University used the "Liberty Way" as a weapon against the plaintiffs.

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The lawsuit states some victims “were explicitly told they would be subject to discipline for violating the Liberty Way.”

“Liberty University weaponized its sexual violence reporting policies by (a) offering the victims of sexual violence a confusingly worded amnesty that (b) was often ignored altogether in practice.”

The plaintiffs are listed as Jane Doe 1 through 12.

Prior to becoming a Liberty University student, Doe 12 attended a summer debate camp at Liberty in 2000 when she was 15, the lawsuit states.

While in a dormitory hall, Doe 12 says she met a soft-spoken man who she later learned was Jesse Matthew Jr., who, years later, was sentenced to four life sentences for murdering Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham .

While in the dorm, the complaint says that man “grabbed her and carried her into a bathroom.” The complaint states that LUPD later identified that man as Jesse Matthew.

The complaint states:

Matthew threw Doe 12 into a large cushioned chair. Before he was able to grab her again, "she interposed her feet between him and her, and held him off while he attempted to grope her legs and breasts."

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The complaint states that Doe 12 reported this to LUPD and officers apprehended Matthew, who she identified as her attacker.

The responding officer, who identified him as the Chief of the LUPD, then required Doe 12 to travel in the same car as her assailant to the police station over her express objection.

The complaint states that LUPD interrogated Doe 12 for hours, asking her to write two separate statements, and then accused her of fabricating her story when minor details were not identical.

Liberty Police reported to her that Matthew had denied any contact with her, the lawsuit states. When she reminded them that the single-gender dorm had a camera that would show him coming and leaving, the police changed their story and alleged that Matthew admitted to contact, but claimed it was consensual, the complaint says.

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The lawsuit claims that LUPD told Doe 12 that she could be “expelled from the camp because she was wearing pants in an academic building, which was at the time a violation of the Liberty Way," and that she’d be criminally charged with filing a false police report if she refused to withdraw her sexual assault report against Matthew.

The police then began an ‘investigation’ into her claim, which seemed to solely consist of a demand that she strip and submit to being photographed by the chief of police. Doe 12 refused and suggested that such an investigation should be undertaken by a doctor or nurse, and that such a professional could also take samples from her nails. The police refused to transport Doe 12 to the hospital and, instead, continued to badger her until she agreed to allow herself to be photographed naked by a female debate coach.

The claim says that Doe 12’s mother was never contacted regarding the photographs and did not consent to such photographs.

Before allowing her to leave, the complaint states that police required that she wash her hands, “to destroy any DNA evidence and present her nails for inspection.”

The next day, Doe 12 told her story to friends, several of whom acknowledged that they had been approached for sex by a man similar to Doe 12’s description of Matthews, but had not reported the solicitation because of concerns that they would be expelled because their clothing had been too revealing.

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The lawsuit says that Doe 12 reported this information to LUPD, but her friends said that they were never interviewed.

The lawsuit contends:

There is no conceivable reason for the police to take naked photographs of a minor following an assault, particularly of areas where there was no bruising or other evidence of injury, as was done in this case.

The lawsuit does not say if LUPD further investigated these claims. According to online court records, Matthew was never charged in this 2000 incident, allowing him to remain under the radar at the time.

It was several years later, on Oct. 17, 2009, that Matthew abducted and murdered 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, according to his criminal conviction, to which he pleaded guilty. Having gone undetected for years, Matthew abducted and murdered a second woman, UVA student Hannah Graham, in September 2014; investigators eventually connected Matthew to both cases through DNA evidence, and he pleaded guilty in 2016 to abducting and murdering the women.

While the 2000 allegation involving Matthew, one of the most notorious murderers in Virginia history, is the earliest allegation in the lawsuit against Liberty, the others span two decades and are as recent as 2019.

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Jane Doe 2, who spoke with ABC13, said she was a Liberty University student in 2005 when a man sexually assaulted her and then started stalking her.

She reported this to the Liberty University Police Department as sexual battery on April 13, 2005. A month later, she reported to LUPD that the same man was stalking her on campus. She filed a protective order against the suspect.

“All I remember is them (LUPD) writing down, reports, and that, like, he was documented, I have the police reports, but nothing changed. There was no action," she said.

According to those police reports, LUPD banned him from campus.

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In April 2005, the same woman said she was walking home to her dorm through the tunnel on campus when someone hit her on the head and three men raped her. She believed one of those men was her stalker.

According to the police report, Jane Doe 2’s roommate called LUPD.

In the report, the responding officer said, “she was dirty, her shirt was torn, and she appeared to have a bump on her head.”

That report was for sexual battery.

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“I wrote a police report up about what had happened that night. I did not go into detail as to the sexual nature of what happened. Again, it's very embarrassing and shameful talking about the fact that it was three men. And what they did” she said. “After that written statement there was verbal communication, and email and communication that specifically used the term ‘rape.’ So, I have some guilt and remorse to this day that I wasn't more forthcoming when it happened.”

She said Title IX never investigated this or assisted her. She said for years, she and her former roommate have reached out to university officials, asking for more security near the tunnel where she was attacked.

To this day, they have tried to say that it didn't happen on campus property, that it was X amount of feet away from the property line.

Liberty University’s Title IX Office is the focus of the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that the Title IX Office failed to investigate multiple claims of rape and sexual assault. Federal laws require that investigators in Liberty University’s Title IX office fully investigate such claims.

The Dept. of Education issued guidance on Title IX as early as 2000. It requires schools to protect students , whether that means separating the victim and the accused, or helping them with their academics. Those laws also say universities must teach students about Title IX and how to report crimes.

I’m the one that got all the punishment, it feels like. I’m the one that had to put this all back together, and you can still live your life and be free.

“I feel like I totally slipped through the cracks,” Jane Doe 11, a former student, said in an ABC13 interview.

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In 2019, Doe #11 said her ex-boyfriend physically abused her, stalked her and sent threats over social media. She says she filed a police report with the Lynchburg Police Department and took out a protective order against him. She said she reported this to Liberty's Title IX office. During her first meeting with the office, she said she gave the investigator text messages, a list of witnesses and other evidence -– but, at least initially, none of it proved enough to have her ex-boyfriend removed from Liberty. She said the University issued a "no-contact directive."

“The next meeting, I came back and I had been told that my ex had gotten a lawyer and this would complicate the case,” she said.

Doe #11 says despite a protective order and an order from the school for her ex-boyfriend to stay away, she still saw him on campus regularly.

“I stopped going to classes because I was still seeing him on campus,” she said. “He would park his car near me, walk past me in the dining hall. It was like, ‘I don’t know what else to do, I just don’t want to see him anymore.'”

The Title IX investigator came to her with an agreement.

The agreement was if he dropped out of college, I would drop the title IX case,” she said. “I was told, ‘Look, this is the best you’re going to get. If you don’t take this then he will still be here in the spring.’

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She signed the agreement that says “both parties agree to keep the matter quiet.”

“20-year-old me, I had just been through something really traumatizing," she said. "I just want it over."

In a Lynchburg City court, he pleaded no contest to one count of assault and battery, but the Title IX office dropped its investigation.

According to the complaint, Doe #11’s ex-boyfriend went further than just physical abuse. She says he raped her, but she didn’t report this to the Title IX investigator. In the complaint, she says she was scared the university would punish her for violating the “the Liberty Way.”

Doe #11 says her former boyfriend transferred schools without anything on his academic record. She later dropped out of Liberty, suffering from what doctors tell her was PTSD. She said she never got academic support from the Title IX office.

“I am three classes short from finishing my degree, and that’s something that was so hard,” she said. “I never thought that I would not be able to finish college, but I just couldn’t. I couldn’t go to a university that never helped me.”

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She’s not alone.

Jane Doe 1, a former employee in 2013, says her supervisor forcefully kissed her.

The lawsuit claims that when she reported it to Liberty University’s human resources department, they said she was not credible because the supervisor was “a man of God” who she was “attempting to smear.”

The lawsuit says the university’s Title IX office never opened an investigation.

Jane Doe 3 alleges that she told her dorm’s resident assistant that a fellow student raped her after a party. The RA told her she would “suffer penalties for drinking under the Liberty Way," she recalled.

Another student, Jane Doe 4 reported her rape to LUPD in 2016, according to the lawsuit. It says she provided text messages and other evidence.

“After the rape, Doe 4 texted her assailant that she had not consented, and that she ‘hadn’t wanted that to happen.’ The assailant responded that ‘he knew that, and next time she should just slap him in the face,'" the lawsuit states.

Title IX investigated, but according to the lawsuit, “The university concluded that the sex between the two students had been consensual because Doe 4 had consented to quasi-sexual activity with her assailant.”

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Jane Doe 5 was a student in 2016 and 2017, according to the complaint. She says she became pregnant after having consensual sex with her boyfriend, who was also a student at LU. She told her prayer group leader who told a university dean. According to the complaint, the dean told her she was “being evicted from campus and expelled” because of the pregnancy. But, they “offered the opportunity to remain, if she agreed to marry the father of the child.”

The complaint says the “university assisted Doe 5 and the father in obtaining a marriage license, and had a staff member solemnize the marriage.”

Jane Doe 6 says in 2013, her boyfriend drugged and raped her. The complaint states that she told her dorm members and went to the hospital and that the university then scheduled counseling for her, but when she got to counseling “she was confronted by Liberty for drinking and fined $500.”

Because Doe 6 had no Title IX training from the University, she was not aware that there was a separate process where she could report her rape.

According to the complaint, she dropped out of LU the same day.

Jane Doe 7, for example, says she was raped in 2014, “not having been educated by the university, she had no understanding of the opportunity to undergo a rape kit," the complaint states, noting that she was, however, aware of how victims were mistreated by the university, which kept her from filing a report.

Doe 7 was a member of the office of student conducts appeals board for Title IX cases, and had first hand knowledge of the University’s treatment of the victims of sexual assault. Specifically, as a result of that knowledge, she made no report to the University.

While most of the plaintiffs were Liberty students, not all were. Jane Doe 8 was an employee at Liberty University, who also claims mistreatment.

The complaint says her supervisor, the same man Jane Doe 1 accused, made “sexually explicit comments directed toward her.” The complaint says the university became aware and later reported the conduct to HR.

“The university took no action in support of Doe 8’s complaint and, instead, communicated Doe 8’s complaint and identity to [the supervisor]," the lawsuit states. It claims her supervisor then retaliated against her.

It was not the only instance in which an accuser claims to have been retaliated against for reporting sexual misconduct. In the complaint, Jane Doe 10, who attended Liberty in 2013, says she was forced to apologize after being raped by her boyfriend, a fellow student.

“[A]fter Doe 10’s rape, her roommates reported Doe 10 to the student conduct office. Although Doe 10 attempted to make clear that she was the victim of a rape, LU’s student conduct office gave her no opportunity to do so and instead forced her to sit with her rapist and apologize to her roommates for her violation of the Liberty Way.”

The complaint says Title IX never investigated her claim.

Beyond the allegations of failing to investigate sexual assault claims and intimidating accusers, one plaintiff says that when she became pregnant with her boyfriend, the university forced her to get married or else she’d be expelled.

“Disappointing. Just really disappointing as a campus,” Sandra Hodgin , a Title IX expert and CEO and founder of Title IX Consulting Group, said in response to the claims.

Universities that are not in compliance with Title IX requirements, including private universities, could face recourse. Hodgin said the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is tasked with investigating Title IX offices if someone makes a complaint that a university is in violation.

“The Office of Civil Rights will first look at the specific complaint and decide whether or not it merits an investigation. If it does merit an investigation, OCR will go to the campus and request a lot of documentation, pretty much doing an audit, per se, in order to decide whether or not something was lacking, or missing or non-compliant with Title IX,” she said. “When they're non-compliant, they usually make the campus pay some sort of fine. It includes specific steps and actions that they need to take in order to improve their compliance.”

While Liberty’s campus is in Lynchburg, Va., Jack Larkin, an attorney with Gawthrop Greenwood , PC, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is filing the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

"Liberty University is a Virginia Corporation that does business in the state of New York through its 'Liberty University Online' program, which solicits payment and actually provides educational services, remotely, to residents in New York," the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit laid out the following allegations:

  • Count I: Pre-Assault Deliberate Indifference/Hostile Environment (Does 1-6 & 6-12 v. Liberty University)
  • Count II: Post-assault Deliberate Indifference (Does 1-4 & 6, 8-12 v. Liberty University)
  • Count III: Hostile Environment (Does 1-12 v. v. Liberty University)
  • Count IV: Retaliation (Does 11-6 & 9-12 v. Liberty University)
  • Count V: Pregnant and Parenting Deliberate Indifference/Hostile Environment (Doe 5 v. Liberty University)
  • Count VI: Negligence (Does 1-4 & 6-12 v. Liberty University)
  • Count VII: 18 U.S.C. 2255 (Does 12 v. Liberty University)

Jane Doe 2 said she hopes that this lawsuit can lead to change at Liberty University.

“Nothing can fix the countless ways my experience with Liberty has caused physical, mental, emotional and spiritual damage. This lawsuit gives me and other victims the opportunity to regain a sense of justice," Jane Doe 2 said. "I feel heard for the first time in 15 years. Even over the past few months of revelations about Liberty’s mishandling, the school remains silent. It’s time for Liberty’s administration and board to be held accountable for their treatment of victims that continues to this day.”

The complaint requests a jury trial and asks for punitive damages to be awarded to the 12 women. It doesn’t ask for a specific dollar amount, but asks for “an amount to be determined at trial, together with attorneys’ fees and such additional amounts as this Court deems just.'

Liberty University issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit:

"The allegations in the Jane Doe 1-12 v. Liberty University lawsuit are deeply troubling, if they turn out to be true. Many of the claims are the complete opposite of how the University’s policies and procedures were designed to operate over the years. Liberty has invested mightily in programs and personnel to help maintain a safe campus and to support any and all victims of sexual assault who came forward. Liberty has a robust non-discrimination policy, which includes an amnesty policy to encourage victims to make reports without fearing that their involvement in other activities like drinking alcohol or extramarital sex will be disciplined under the student honor code. That policy includes a fair process for resolving disputes about rape, sexual harassment, sex discrimination and retaliation, as well as providing supportive measures as appropriate. It would be heartbreaking if those efforts had the results claimed in this lawsuit. We will immediately look into each of these claims to determine what needs to be done to make things right, if they turn out to be true. Because the claims are made anonymously and go back many years, in one case over two decades, it will take some time to sort through."

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Degree Presentation Ceremony: School of Business

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School of Business Degree Presentation.

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