Posted on 12/15/2022 5:06:06 AM PST by marktwain
The last we checked in on Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear Oberlin College’s appeal, ending the college’s fight to overturn the massive jury verdict. The $25 million verdict plus interest and attorney’s fees resulted in an almost $32 million judgment, with interest running at about $4000 per day since June 2019. In all, over $36 million was owed, secured by an appeal bond.
While Oberlin College announced, after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled, that it had agreed to pay the judgment, in fact it did so out of legal compulsion, not good faith. The Gibsons were poised to execute on the appeal bond. As we noted at the time, Oberlin College, even in legal defeat, refused to apologize or acknowledge it did anything wrong:
Notice what is not in the statement: An apology. Oberlin College still appears not to understand or accept what it did wrong. It considers itself the victim.
There also was no apology, instead a dismissive attitude, in a mass email sent by the president of the college ….
In September, we held an online event with Lorna Gibson, wife of the late David Gibson and daughter-in-law of the late Allyn W. “Grandpa” Gibson, and lead trial attorneys Lee Plakas and Owen Rarric.
ee Plakas, lead trial counsel:
We’d like to thank Professor Jacobson. And we’d like to thank all of the readers because although you did not know it at the time, and the time that this family was going through the challenge, Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson, and your readers gave the family the support and the courage that they needed to persevere in what literally was a David and Goliath battle.
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I forget what happened in the 1st place. The Gibsons refused to make a penis cake or something?
Oberlin destroyed its reputation in the process.
I did not read the complete article, given how Oberlin College delayed and fought paying the settlement, I wonder if the Bakery was entitled to interest on the unpaid settlement.
Over a period of a couple of years a 30+ million-dollar settlement could rack up a ton of interest.
My mistake, I see now that indeed Interest was charged and collected.
They have been this way for a long time. In 1965 I looked at them and toured the campus. Never bothered to apply.
Finally. And no apology - of course.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Sue them again, harder and faster.
If you’d like to order some Christmas goodies from the Gibson bakery, you can do it here:
https://www.gibsonbakery.com/s/shop
Finally, The Gibson’s Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College The Gibsons have collected the over $36 million owed them. Sadly, David Gibson and “Grandpa” Allyn Gibson did not live to see this day. By stretching out the appeals Oberlin College waited them out, but the rest of the family survives. We wish the Gibson family well.
The thugs from the school were stealing from this family’s store, got caught, and cried raciss! The president slandered the store instead of the thug students!
IIRC it was a gay themed wedding cake.
You are correct.
A black stole a bottle of wine and the bakery had the audacity to attempt to stop the black thief.
My post was incorrect.
Oberlin College still appears not to understand or accept what it did wrong. It considers itself the victim.
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Typical elite “thinking”. They are the elite. They cannot be wrong, even as their proclamations invert on any given subject (e.g., masks, no masks, masks). Apology would be an admission of fallibility, and these people think they are gods and not to be questioned.
Try to force a gay bakery to bake a Nazi themed cake...
Never mind..they would probably be glad to do it.
Posted days ago . . . but that’s okay.
Interest accrued at over $4,000 per day.
Heh, heh.
Nope.
A couple black students shoplifted, got caught, pleaded guilty at trial.
Oberlin administration encouraged violence, boycotting of the bakery, and tagged the bakery (of course) as racist.
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