Posted on 04/03/2022 3:01:20 PM PDT by Twotone
Progressive Oberlin College lost a huge case in appeals court last week that forced the school to pay $31 million to a bakery, which it falsely accused of carrying out racist actions in a 2016 incident.
Gibson's Bakery – a 135-year-old family business near the campus of Oberlin College – was the site of an unfortunate incident. The owner's son allegedly confronted three black Oberlin students who attempted to shoplift bottles of wine. According to the police report, one of the suspects assaulted a store employee when confronted about the stolen wine.
The three students pleaded guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespassing, and "said in statements required by a plea agreement that their actions were wrong and that the store wasn't racist," according to CBS News.
Following the incident, the Oberlin College student senate passed a resolution claiming that the bakery "has a history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment of students and residents alike," despite any evidence. The senate called for student to "immediately cease all support, financial and otherwise, of Gibson's" and called upon Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov to publicly condemn the bakery.
The bakery launched a lawsuit in 2017, in which they asserted that the campaign launched by the small liberal arts college in northern Ohio was not only unfounded, but crippled their business.
In 2019, Lorain County Judge John Miraldi ordered Oberlin to pay the bakery over $40 million in damages. The figure was later reduced to $25 million, plus $6.2 million for the bakery's lawyer fees.
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These liberals do not actually support free speech and never have.
But they are stupid or duplicitous as this isn’t a case of free speech at all. On second thought, replace the word or with and.
I hope that the university gets into several financial difficulty to the point that it is forced to close. The professors there can learn to code.
Seriously.
I can’t imagine what a freak show that bunch is.
The laws on this may vary by state, but for many colleges a huge chunk of their endowments are not open to seizure in a lawsuit because of the way they are structured. If I donate $10 million to a college to help generate a revenue stream to support a new department and facilities, the money doesn’t actually belong to the school to do what they want with it. If any of that money isn’t used for it’s stated purpose (including a payment for damages in a lawsuit), the donor can demand to get it paid back.
Don’t you just hate when that happens? /s
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I love the smell of Napalm in the morning😁😁😁
There are hungry plaintiffs attorneys who will see to it that that does not happen.
The cost of woke: Appeals court rules Oberlin must pay Gibson’s bakery $32 million
JOHN SEXTON Apr 09, 2022 3:30 PM ET
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/04/09/the-cost-of-woke-appeals-court-rules-oberlin-must-pay-gibsons-bakery-32-million-n461248
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