Comment on Gibson’s Bakery v.Oberlin College – Defense wants damages reduced ... (tr.)

Gibson’s Bakery v.Oberlin College – Defense wants damages reduced ... (tr.)

The massive $11 million compensatory and $33 million punitive damage verdicts in favor of Gibson’s Bakery and its owners have been matched by equally massive media condemnation of Oberlin College’s conduct. In response, Oberlin College has developed a crisis management talking point that this “is a First Amendment case about whether whether an institution can be held liable for the speech of its students.” It’s a narrative of Oberlin College as victim, not the perpetrator the jury found it to be, and it’s being rolled out by Oberlin College with increasing media focus.

 

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