{"id":1172737,"date":"2021-12-30T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172737"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:20:04","slug":"remember-the-bakery-falsely-accused-of-racism-by-oberlin-college-students-its-still-waiting-for-its-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-the-bakery-falsely-accused-of-racism-by-oberlin-college-students-its-still-waiting-for-its-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Bakery Falsely Accused Of Racism By Oberlin College Students? It\u2019s Still Waiting For Its Millions Of Dollars."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremember-the-bakery-falsely-accused-of-racism-by-oberlin-college-students-its-still-waiting-for-its-millions-of-dollars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Gibson\u2019s Bakery, which won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Oberlin College after the college supported and encouraged students who boycotted the family-owned business over false accusations of racism, still hasn\u2019t received the $25 million awarded to it by a court.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Oberlin filed an appeal, which saw court arguments in November 2020 but has since languished in the court system, The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/oberlin-colleges-appeal-of-25m-award-to-family-owned-bakery-continues-to-hang-in-limbo\/\">reported<\/a>. The appeal remains \u201cundecided before Ohio\u2019s Ninth District Court of Appeals,\u201d the Fix reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2019\/11\/ted-koppel-despite-verdict-oberlin-college-president-still-makes-allusions-to-a-pattern-of-racist-behavior-by-gibsons-bakery\/#more-299344\">website<\/a> Legal Insurrection covered the original trial in 2019 extensively, told the Fix that \u201cit\u2019s hard to understand\u201d why the appeal still hadn\u2019t been decided.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/worse-you-think-theres-more-oberlin-story-ashe-schow\">reported<\/a>, several non-white Oberlin students attempted to steal alcohol from Gibson\u2019s, a local bakery with a long history of serving the Oberlin community. A Gibson family member who was working at the bakery that day chased the students out of the store, where they attacked him. He called the police and the students were arrested, pleading guilty and admitting race had nothing to do with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>But other students and faculty accused the bakery of racism and staged protests outside, with Oberlin officials fully endorsing and supporting the protesters\u2019 (false) narrative. Further, while Oberlin claimed in court the protests were peaceful, some demonstrators actually entered the bakery and harassed customers, taking pictures of them and making disparaging comments to them. They also blocked customers from moving down the aisles and slashed the tires of a store employee.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, Oberlin administrators trashed the bakery and anyone who defended them, calling defenders \u201cidiots\u201d and saying \u201cF***\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>The Gibson\u2019s home was broken into months after the protests (though it is unclear whether it was related), with the elderly patriarch breaking bones in his neck. Business dropped and employees were laid-off. The family was threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors sided with the bakery and awarded them $33 million in damages, an amount that was later reduced to $25 million due to state limits. In April of this year, the Oberlin College lawyer who failed to defend the school was transferred to Cornell University, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-oberlin-college-lawyer-responsible-for-the-gibson-bakery-debacle-is-now-at-cornell\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell appointed general counsel Donica Thomas Varner earlier this year, even though she is currently best known for sending an inflammatory email criticizing the jury\u2019s decision to award Gibson\u2019s Bakery $11.2 million in compensatory damages. The email was sent after this decision but before a separate trial awarded the bakery an additional $33 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed with the verdict and regret that the jury did not agree with the clear evidence our team presented. Neither Oberlin College nor Dean Meredith Raimondo defamed a local business or its owners, and they never endorsed statements made by others. Rather, the College and Dr. Raimondo worked to ensure that students\u2019 freedom of speech was protected and that the student demonstrations were safe and lawful, and they attempted to help the plaintiffs repair any harm caused by the student protests,\u201d Varner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oberlin-college-may-end-paying-bakery-much-more-11-ashe-schow\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cAs we have stated, colleges cannot be held liable for the independent actions of their students. Institutions of higher education are obligated to protect freedom of speech on their campuses and respect their students\u2019 decision to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights. Oberlin College acted in accordance with these obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email so inflamed the court it became an issue, with Varner being asked questions about her statements.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence and testimony at trial backed up Gibson\u2019s plight, yet Varner still sent that email, beyond what losing attorneys typically say after losing. Varner\u2019s email may well have cost the college another $30 million, yet she was rewarded with a new job at Cornell.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson\u2019s Bakery, which won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Oberlin College after the college supported and encouraged students who boycotted the family-owned business over false accusations of racism, still hasn\u2019t received the $25 million awarded to it by a court. That\u2019s because Oberlin filed an appeal, which saw court arguments in November 2020 but has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}