Oberlin College faced $4 million in interest payments after refusing to pay $33 million in damages for defamation at a family bakery it describes as racist.
Gibson’s bakery is reportedly struggling to survive after Oberlin College students and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo falsely accused the business of racism.
Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar (Oberlin College/YouTube)
Gibsons Bakery on Oberlin Campus (Dake Kang/AP)
In addition, students continue to boycott the 137-year-old bakery despite unfounded claims.
Worse still, a vigilante college in Ohio will not repair damages to Gibson’s Bakery by court order.
According to a report, Oberlin College now faces $4 million in interest payments on top of the amount the school already owes. diary letter.
Earlier this year, three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a 3-0 decision affirming the 2019 decision in the case. This award is the largest libel conviction in Ohio history.
Oberlin College in 2019 was ordered to pay Gibson’s bakery $33 million for defamation after Raimondo, now a former dean, arranged a wake-up mob to call the police on three black students for allegedly stealing wine bottles and discredit the family as racist.
The money was supposed to be paid to the bakery on April 1, but the college refused to pay it.
In addition, two plaintiffs died. Gibson bakery owner Ellin Gibson and his son David Gibson have passed away, and the family is looking forward to the millions they received from Oberlin College.
Meanwhile, Oberlin allegedly filed an appeal against them. The appeal will go to the Ohio Supreme Court after two lower courts rejected the college’s attempts to evade Gibson.
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Source: Breitbart
