Oberlin College Will Appeal $25 Million Defamation Verdict
Oberlin College announced this week that it is filing an appeal on the Gibson’s Bakery defamation case, which resulted in a $25 million jury verdict against the school.

Oberlin College announced this week that it is filing an appeal on the Gibson’s Bakery defamation case, which resulted in a $25 million jury verdict against the school.
The owner of Gibson’s Bakery, which won a multi-million dollar legal verdict in a defamation case against Oberlin College, claims that the college is now waiting for the bakery’s owner to die from his recent cancer diagnosis before moving forward with an appeal.
An Ohio judge has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million bond after it refused to pay the multi-million judgment to Gibson’s Bakery stemming from the family business’s defamation case against the college.
Gibson’s Bakery has been awarded an additional $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and expenses on top of the $25 million judgement that was laid down by an Ohio jury again Oberlin College, which it found had defamed the family-owned business.
Former Oberlin College President S. Frederick Starr criticized the college’s current leadership in a Wall Street Journal column for its role in spreading misinformation and defamation about local family business Gibson’s Bakery.
Oberlin College has refused to apologize to Gibson’s Bakery after losing to the bakery in a multi-million dollar libel lawsuit to avoid offending students with “different perspectives.”
The attorney for Gibson’s Bakery is pushing back against Oberlin College’s new version of the facts about the bakery’s massive defamation lawsuit, which resulted in a $44 million verdict against Oberlin.
Comedian Bill Maher criticized social justice warriors at Oberlin College this week over their role in defaming a local bakery. The family-owned business won a $44 million judgment in a defamation case against the notoriously progressive school.
The punitive phase of the trial is now in session, which means Oberlin could be ordered to pay up to three times that $11.2 million.
A jury in Ohio has awarded a local bakery $11 million after the progressive Oberlin College falsely portrayed the bakery as racist.
An Ohio jury ordered Oberlin College to pay $11.2 million in compensatory damages to a family bakery smeared by the university as racist.
Over the last few years, a select few schools around the country have shown the high cost of catering to the demands of partisan activist groups and mobs of social justice warriors.
Oberlin College has recently taken legal action as part of their effort to silence journalism by website Legal Insurrection that has portrayed the school in a negative light.