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Posted by Daniel McGraw on June 12, 2019 164 Comments
The witness testimony completed today in the punitive damages hearing, which follows the $11.2 million compensatory verdict last Friday in the lawsuit Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College. The jury could award up to double damages, meaning $22.4 million on top of the $11.2 million, bringing the potential total to $33.6 million, plus a recommendation that the judge award attorney's fees. I will have a complete update later, but here is the essence of Oberlin College's defense today:

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2019 32 Comments
As we pointed out recently, Linda Fairstein, the New York City sex crimes prosecutor who handled the famous 'Central Park Five' case, has been subjected to a purge after the premiere of a new Netflix program on the subject. She claims the program has distorted the truth and maligned her unfairly. Now she is speaking out in her own defense. She wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

Posted by Daniel McGraw on June 11, 2019 36 Comments
With the compensatory damages verdict of $11.2 million having been rendered last Friday, the parties in Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College are now into the punitive damages phase. But in a civil trial that has gone on much longer expected, the jury never saw the courtroom today as the judge had to rule on about a half-dozen motions filed by Oberlin College.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2019 46 Comments

Update

[3:20 p.m.] The Court has rejected plaintiffs' request to use the mass email sent by Oberlin College's Vice President and General Counsel, Donica Thomas Varner, to the Oberlin community criticizing the jury. The plaintiffs subpoenaed her to testify, and the defense filed a motion to quash the subpoena. The Judge ruled: "this was a letter sent by the Oberlin general counsel after the verdict. We are talking about the actions of the defendants that demonstrated malice. What we will use is only what was litigated in court."

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2019 41 Comments
As you know, last Friday the jury rendered a verdict of $11.2 million against Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo for compensatory damages. Allyn W. Gibson was awarded $3 million, David Gibson $5.8 million, Gibson Bros. $2,274,500. Legal Insurrection readers heard it here first. Our Verdict post has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media.

Posted by Daniel McGraw on June 09, 2019 70 Comments
Sometimes it is the simplest explanations that explain best what some see as very complex. As a journalist who has following the Gibson Bakery racial accusation case for more than two years now – and who was able to cover it from a courtroom seat for the last month or so for Legal Insurrection – I see things from a perspective that is both factually based and less emotional politically. What it is, not what I wish it were.
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