Posted on 06/26/2019 5:51:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom
The massive $11 million compensatory and $33 million punitive damage verdicts in favor of Gibson’s Bakery and its owners have been matched by equally massive media condemnation of Oberlin College’s conduct.
In response, Oberlin College has developed a crisis management talking point that this “is a First Amendment case about whether whether an institution can be held liable for the speech of its students.” It’s a narrative of Oberlin College as victim, not the perpetrator the jury found it to be, and it’s being rolled out by Oberlin College with increasing media focus.
Of course, that’s not at all what the case was about. The case was about the conduct and speech of Oberlin administrators, particularly Senior Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo, under standard and well settled principles that an employer is responsible for the tortious actions of employees acting within the scope of their employment. There is nothing novel about that legal principle, and in this case it was applied to Raimondo and other administrators, not to students.
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Totally agree.
What’s wrong with $60 million ?
Yeah, the Great Raimondio.
Yup-But don’t YOU try it!
And people in hell want ice water.
They’ll find an appeals judge who went to some uber-Liberal college to grant them relief.
How Oberlin keeps willfully dismissing the jury’s finding of facts shows their lack of remorse. If they can’t admit error, they shouldn’t get a reprieve.
People in Hell want ice water.
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