A judgment ordering Oberlin College to pay $25 million to a local business after it sued the college for libel following a shoplifting student involving three Black students will stand.
a year after David Gibson's son, also named Allyn, chased and tackled an underage, Black male student he suspected of having stolen a bottle of wine. Two Black female students who were with the male student tried to intervene. All three were arrested and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
The arrests triggered lawful student protests outside Gibson's Bakery where flyers accusing the Gibsons of racist business practices were distributed. A Student Senate resolution condemning the Gibsons was emailed to all students and was posted in a display case at school's student center, where it remained for a year. Oberlin College officials ordered its campus food provider to stop buying bakery items from Gibson's.
The college also said it did not"approve, endorse, or condone" the students' speech and that it, as an institution, should not be held accountable for its students' speech. "Essentially it's saying that the college should be held liable for student speech and we're saying that that's not the right decision," Oberlin College president Carmen Twillie Ambar told CBS News in 2019.
A Lorain County jury awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages in June 2019 after a five week trial. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.Trending News
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