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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HA,HA!
Nice to see a happy story for our side!
I just LOVE stories with happy endings! Snif snif…
With legal fees this will cost Oberlin close to $50,000,000.
Good!
Liberals do not grasp ethics, morals, or laws. To them “critical thinking” means whatever “feels good”. But Liberals do understand money - so speak to them in a language they understand. Too bad it’s only $38 Million instead of Billion. Take the college and expand the bakery
excellent.
sick of the race card, frankly.
Oberlin tried to destroy their business. A just settlement would have them owning the college. If that sort of thing started happening in courts, it would finally put an end to politics of personal destruction.
Just publicly denounce CRT, Affirmative Action, Diversity and commit to a merit-based system only for admissions and graduations and hire and hire an America first overseer and we’ll call it even.
Make an example out of Oberlin College and all the other debt slave masters who teach our youth absolutely nothing except entitlement and ‘wokeness’.
Serves ‘em right. $31M on top of all the lawyers’ fees they’ve paid out, too.
“Oberlin College student senate”
Queue the Star Wars cantina music.
Now they should go after the individuals who made the accusations.
Alison Schary, First Amendment lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine, called the verdict "deeply troubling."From Public Shame to the Courtroom"Holding universities financially liable for student speech will inevitably lead them to police and censor that speech, creating a chilling effect that is antithetical to the First Amendment," Schary told Salon.
"If colleges were held responsible for the independent speech and actions of student protesters, that would indeed have a chilling effect on free speech. This lawsuit may even inspire future litigation against colleges that chills protected speech, as plaintiffs seeking a similar payday attempt to target administrators for what students do on their own."Oberlin College president claims Gibson’s Bakery case could have ‘profound, chilling’ effect on free speech
Oberlin College: Gibson's Bakery verdict could have 'chilling effect on free speech'
Oberlin verdict could have 'chilling effect' on college free-speech policies
They have a 1 billion endowment.
“Oberlin College student senate”
Queue the Star Wars cantina music.
Now that there was a winner! And, it goes for pretty much every “Student Senate”. Clowns all.
Indeed.
Great, now I want a donut.
Good.
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