The massive $11 million compensatory and $33 million punitive damage verdicts in favor of Gibsons Bakery and its owners have been matched by equally massive media condemnation of Oberlin Colleges 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. Its a narrative of Oberlin College as victim, not the perpetrator the jury found it to be, and its being rolled out by Oberlin College with increasing media focus.