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Oberlin College has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case
2022-09-09
[LegalInsurrection] Finally, Oberlin College stops fighting, and the future of Gibson’s Bakery looks brighter after six years of darkness.

by William A. Jacobson

It looks like the Gibson family’s long struggle with Oberlin College is over, and the college will pay the judgment it has been fighting for years. Unfortunately, David Gibson and “Grandpa” Allyn Gibson did not live to see it, having passed away after the trial verdict.

We have covered this case since the November 2016 protests, through the trial (the only national outlet with a reporter in the courtroom every single trial day, through the appeals, and now what appears to be the end. It was not always easy covering this case, at one point Oberlin College tried to subpoena OUR records, After legal challenge, Oberlin College withdraws subpoena seeking our journalist communications.

I just received the following email from Scott Wargo, Director of Communications at Oberlin College:

Oberlin College initiates payment of awarded damages in Gibson’s Bakery case

Oberlin College and Conservatory has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case and is awaiting payment information from the plaintiffs. This amount represents awarded damages and accumulated interest, and therefore no further payments are required.

On August 30, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its decision not to hear Oberlin’s appeal. Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has decided not to pursue the matter further.
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Gibson’s Bakery: 2022-07-11 Woke Oberlin College is hit with FOUR MILLION DOLLARS in interest charges for dragging its heels in paying $36m defamation damages to family-run bakery over false racism claims
Posted by:badanov

#13  With guaranteed student loans, you can be sure that tuition hikes have been baked in for years.

And if this Administration can just tear up contract law by absolving student loan debts, even if temporarily, then rest assured tuitions will go even higher. These universities/colleges will get their dough.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-09-09 14:43  

#12  #7 damn that’s across the street from me…
Posted by: Beavis   2022-09-09 14:28  

#11  
#8 #7 Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

IIUC, an insurance company. Which is a GOOD thing, because they hate losses and will be talking to their other clients about how not to screw the pooch like Oberlin. Maybe, just maybe, leading to muzzling a few of the more rabid DEI bullshitters.
Posted by: Nero 2022-09-09 13:15

...And this is a win-win for the real world: The insurance company paid, and that means that the College and the insurers' reps are having some very quiet, earnest conversations about either multiplying their premiums by a couple orders of magnitude...or seeking another insurer.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-09-09 13:58  

#10  I hear a lot of talk about "taxing the value" of the forgiven student loan.

How long until the "value" of scholarships are taxed ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 13:47  

#9  because they hate losses

More like, they dial losses into the algorithms that determine premiums for the rest of their insured. And figure the cost of coaching those clients on risk management into that total too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-09 13:23  

#8  #7 Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

IIUC, an insurance company. Which is a GOOD thing, because they hate losses and will be talking to their other clients about how not to screw the pooch like Oberlin. Maybe, just maybe, leading to muzzling a few of the more rabid DEI bullshitters.
Posted by: Nero   2022-09-09 13:15  

#7  

We need to see more of these lawsuits were LSD's slander good hard working people solely for political gain.

Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

BTW: The Dean of Student that was deeply invloved in this royal $%^& up came to Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. ---> Needless to say I heard she started up again.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-09-09 08:12  

#6  Leftist Shariah and racial mob moochery loses. Yaaayyy!

Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-09 08:01  

#5  'Truth still matters, and David has overcome Goliath': Family-run bakery hails $36.5 million settlement that Oberlin FINALLY paid - after woke college defamed the small business with false racism claims
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-09 07:22  

#4  
#2 No problem. It'll be covered by raising tuition, which the students will borrow from the government -- later to be 'forgiven' by the Democrats.

Has anything happened to the individuals involved?
Posted by: CrazyFool 2022-09-09 04:28

CF,

AFAIK, the one person who really pushed this whole thing - former Dean of Students and school VP Meredith Raimundo - bailed in 2021 to take a similar job at Oglethorpe University. Take note, however, of two things:

1) She was supposed to have stayed on in a teaching slot at Oberlin, but that was scuttled at the last minute. There is at least circumstantial evidence that she fell/was pushed from the school because

2) After fairly intense 'discussions', the school indemnified her in writing against any possible civil penalties arising from this disaster. In other words, when (not if) she's sued by the Gibsons, and they win (the evidence against the college had her name, fingerprints and smiling face literally all over it) the school is going to pay that judgement.

This ain't over, sports fans. Not by a long shot.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-09-09 06:44  

#3  /\ Yes, tuition increases will be baked in.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 06:15  

#2  No problem. It'll be covered by raising tuition, which the students will borrow from the government -- later to be 'forgiven' by the Democrats.

Has anything happened to the individuals involved?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-09-09 04:28  

#1  It’s a good day for the Gibson family.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-09-09 00:15  

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