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-Great Cultural Revolution
Ohio Court of Appeals issues a decision in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case
2022-04-01
[LegalInsurrection] On November 10, 2020, the Court heard oral argument on (1) the appeal by Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimando seeking to overturn the compensatory and punitive damage awards totalling, after reduction under Ohio tort reform law, $25 million, plus over $6 million in attorney’s fees, bringing the judgment to over $32 million, and (2) the cross-appeal by Gibson’s Bakery and two members of the Gibson family (including the widow of the late David Gibson) seeking to restore the full $33 million punitive damages award, arguing the tort reform reduction was unconstitutional, which would add back about $15 million to the judgment.

One of the Judges who sat on oral argument, Julie Shafer, was not reelected on November 3, 2020, and was replaced by Judge Betty Sutton, who joined Judges Jennifer Hensal and Donna Carr.

A decision was just issued, written by Justice Carr:

"Appellants, Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo (collectively “Oberlin” or individually “the college” or “Raimondo”), appeal from a judgment of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas that entered judgment against them and awarded compensatory and punitive damages to Gibson Brothers, Inc., Allyn W. Gibson, and David R. Gibson1 (collectively “the Gibsons”). The Gibsons cross-appealed the trial court’s reduction of damages that the jury had originally awarded them. This Court affirms."
Summary: The appeals court ruled Oberlin College has to pay the bakery all the money.
More at the link
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Gibson’s Bakery: 2019-06-13 Oberlin College pleads poverty to jury deciding on punitive damages
Posted by:badanov

#21  Trouble is that the alumni who contributed so much of that money are adamantly opposed to any of it going for the damages...which means it will come out of Oberlin's insurance.
Not just the alumni. A lot of faculty are furious as well. Oberlin used to stand for free inquiry and free speech. The current administration are a bunch of bozos. There's a deep divide between the admins and the faculty
Posted by: Gerthudion Shusoting4941   2022-04-01 15:09  

#20  One serious fall for Soros would be a giant leap for mankind.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-04-01 14:56  

#19  Oberlin's Chair of the Board of Trustees is Chris Canavan. He's a Soros tool.

Canavan is Managing Director of Lion’s Head Global Partners, a financial advisory firm that specializes in sustainable development. Lion’s Head has offices in London, New York, Nairobi and Lagos. Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Chris was Director of Global Policy Development at SorosFund Management, where he spent nine years working on a variety of initiatives for the firm’s founder.
Posted by: Gerthudion Shusoting4941   2022-04-01 14:13  

#18  Alumni of Oberlin include Nobel prize winners. accomplished musicians, public intellectuals (including some conservatives).

I suspect many of the alumni already regret their donations to the Oberlin endowment. Too bad there is no way to claw it back.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-04-01 13:40  

#17  So Warthog, are you a Redskin or Redhawk?

Redskin all the way baby!
Posted by: Warthog   2022-04-01 13:38  

#16  My answer to #4
Ohio is no Florida
SW Ohio Resident most of life.
Ohio Governor, Mike Dewine is a RINO who faked covid to avoid standing on stage with Trump during the Presidential campaign. He is for red flag laws, but signed CCW into law. He raised property tax significantly, increased gas tax for road improvement, is heavily involved in the First Energy Scandal that brought down the House Speaker.
Current canidates running for Governor are weak from both parties.
Lt. Governor John Husted is the capitol's pajama boy. Life long politician, like nails on chalkboard to listen to him speak.
A knowledgeable Columbus lobbyist acquaintance of mine suggests Dewine will be reelected and retire two years into his term, turning over the reigns to Husted, good ol' boy that he is.
The House and Senate are majority Republican and conservative but can be bribed.
Liberals run the big cities and the rest of the state is conservative.
it will be a long time before Ohio is like Florida.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-04-01 11:11  

#15  He is the only GOP governor to implement the kill gramma policy that plaques deep blue states. The Ohio death toll matches that policy. Nobody has noticed that yet.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-04-01 11:11  

#14   I forget who that RINO governor or senator was from Ohio and, I think, made a half-a$$ attempt to run for president.

Governor John Kasich ran for president twice, DooDahMan, in 2000 and 2016. Before that he was a congressman for nearly two decades.

Mike DeWine is Ohio’s current governor. He’s conservative for a country club Republican. Or possibly he’s anti-Trump for a conservative Republican. His career covers all the bases: public prosecutor, congressman, lieutenant governor, senator, Ohio attorney general, now this.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-04-01 10:51  

#13  So Warthog, are you a Redskin or Redhawk?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-04-01 10:42  

#12  I am an Ohioan. My younger brother graduated from Oberlin; I went to a service academy. We have compared notes. Oberlin is a little isolated to be attractive to any non-hardcore liberals. I think there are several other equally liberal schools around the state that have better parties.

With respect to being like Florida, Ohio is a conglomeration of communities that either have Trump or BLM signs in the front yard. All the working class towns are solidly pro-Trump. The affluent towns tend to be liberal, but the majority is MAGA. The biggest difference is in leadership. Jordan is the exception not the rule. Dewine resembles Desantis in the same way that a jelly donut resembles a Porterhouse steak. I guess their last names start with D so they are alike in that regard
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-04-01 10:41  

#11  Guess I'm lucky to have attended Miami U. in Ohio before all the BS ramped up (late 1970's). My MS thesis advisor flew P-51s during WWII. He didn't put up with any crap...
Posted by: Warthog   2022-04-01 09:47  

#10  ☺ Just what Atlanta needs another transplanted Yankee Liberal. Coming down here to tell us how they did it up north to screw up everything...☺
Posted by: NN2N1

That's rich NN. Emory U reminds me of Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio. Birth place of LSD (or so they say).
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-04-01 09:33  

#9  #8
The College, the staff, and its alumni have learned an important lesson today. Hate Speech, Lies, and organizing protests based on them costs Big Buck$

NN,

I wish that was the lesson they learned. All Oberlin, its students, faculty, and administration know now is that Those Deplorable Hicks beyond the Quad are racist/unwoke/otherwise icky, and this just proves it.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-04-01 09:00  

#8  
The College, the staff, and its alumni have learned an important lesson today. Hate Speech, Lies, and organizing protests based on them costs Big Buck$

BTW: The College Demographics show that the enrolled student population at Oberlin College, is 60.4% White, and only 5.41% Black or African American. In short a White LIBERAL college.

NOTE: The former Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo is a White Female and is now VP of Student Affairs at Oglethorpe University in the Metro-Atlanta GA. area.

☺ Just what Atlanta needs another transplanted Yankee Liberal. Coming down here to tell us how they did it up north to screw up everything...☺
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-04-01 08:12  

#7  I forget who that RINO governor or senator was from Ohio and, I think, made a half-a$$ attempt to run for president.

Also, there was/is a congressman who was all for impeaching Trump.

Almost makes me yearn for Dennis Kucinich.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-04-01 07:53  

#6  Meredith Raimondo should be paying her own penalty $ - I doubt the insurance will find she acted within her duties and job requirements
Posted by: Frank G   2022-04-01 07:30  

#5  
#4 Are there any Ohioans who can weigh in?

Is Ohio potentially another Florida -- ie a center of the Resistance to woke insanity and creeping dictatorship?
Posted by: Spats Jinelet2969 2022-04-01 00:22

...Grew up a short drive from Oberlin, and even then (late 60s, early 70s) it was known as 'Moscow-On-Route-57'. The school has been living on its mid 19th century reputation for way too long, and may be about to hit something of a wall.

The school was originally intending to pay damages out of their endowment fund, and since it's just shy of one billion dollars, $33M USD would have effectively cost the school nothing. Trouble is that the alumni who contributed so much of that money are adamantly opposed to any of it going for the damages...which means it will come out of Oberlin's insurance. And that's going to cost them bigly.

There's also the fact that the College - faculty and students alike - hate the locals, and the locals return the favor. The locals are kind of a microcosm of the rest of the state: politically center-liberal, socially VERY conservative. Politics at the state level have been inching rightward for a while now, and if the Democrats do enough damage, I can see cities like Cleveland and Toledo digging in and saying 'enough'.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-04-01 06:34  

#4  Are there any Ohioans who can weigh in?

Is Ohio potentially another Florida -- ie a center of the Resistance to woke insanity and creeping dictatorship?
Posted by: Spats Jinelet2969   2022-04-01 00:22  

#3  ^ Maybe in Ohio. A bastion of rationality, and decency (?)
Posted by: Spats Jinelet2969   2022-04-01 00:19  

#2  The ship, is it turning ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-04-01 00:16  

#1  HALLELUJAH!

A sad note: "As satisfying as this must be to the Gibson family, it also must be bittersweet because the two lead plaintiffs and the patriarchs of the family did not live to see the appeals court verdict:
- David Gibson of Gibson’s Bakery has passed away. (November 16, 2019)
- “Grandpa” Allyn W. Gibson of Gibson’s Bakery Passes Away At Age 93 (February 14, 2022)

Fuck the Oberlin administrator-bastards. Fuck then and their lawyers fircwhat they did to these kind, decent, normal people:

"as David Gibson revealed when he announced his cancer diagnosis after the verdict, Oberlin College dragged out the case knowing David was terminally ill."
Posted by: Glaviper Trotsky7435   2022-04-01 00:13  

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