Oberlin loses, big time
Wow.
The jury really really really didn’t buy Oberlin’s “poor little me” argument:
Daniel McGraw, our reporter in the courtroom, reports that in addition to the $11.2 million compensatory damages awarded last Friday, the jury awarded a total of $33 million in punitive damages, which will probably be reduced by the court to $22 million because of the state law cap at twice compensatory (it’s not an absolute cap, but probably will apply here). That brings the total damages to $33 million. We will have the breakdown soon. The jury also awarded attorney’s fees, to be determined by the judge.
In closing argument, Gibson’s lawyer Lee Plakas argued:
“Why is the country watching you. Because the country agrees that what happened to the Gibsons should not happen to anyone, but could happen to everyone.”
”Colleges are watching us and you. Because they all know the way colleges are run will be affected, and by your decisions, they will be.”
Just to clarify, the award wasn’t about student demonstrations against Gibson’s Bakery. It was about Oberlin’s participation in the persecution and defamation of Gibson’s as a supposedly racist business.
In the punitive damages section of the trial, one of Oberlin’s main defenses was that their bottom line would suffer from a large award and that it would ultimately be the poorer students who would wind up paying. As Defense attorney Rachelle Kuznicki argued, “less [sic; it should be “fewer”] students who are not able to afford a college education will be able to do so.”
I think Oberlin might not understand the nature of the term “punitive damages.” The award for punitive damages is meant to hurt the person or group or institution ordered to pay it. Oberlin is that group. Will a large award mean that fewer students will be able to afford a college education? Only if Oberlin decides to cut back on that element of its spending rather than other areas.
Such an award means makes it more likely that fewer students not able to afford a college education will not be going to Oberlin. That hurts Oberlin. There are plenty of other institutions from which to choose, and Oberlin serves a rather small number anyway, enrolling around 800 students a year. Oberlin used to be a great school, but that was a long time ago. In recent years at Oberlin, “serves” has tended more and more to mean “indoctrinates in leftist thought and leftist activism.”
Wow! That means Oberlin will have to lay off 16-20 administrators.
Who am I kidding? They won’t do that. They’ll lay off instructors and raise tuition.
EXCELLENT! WELL DESERVED!
Oberlin has just been shown how expensive their SJW agenda can be.
I hope that the award is fully paid.
All other colleges with SJW faculty should take warning as to just how expensive they really can be.
They’ll lay off instructors and raise tuition.
No, first on the chopping block will be the hourly staff, then appropriations for term-appointments to the faculty and adjunct positions. Next, replacements for retiring faculty get cut. Next will be administrators in the support staff cones: physical plant, finance, &c.
the whole upper echelon were women, from the lawyers to the 500k a year positions… all women… and all thought in some way, rules dont apply or they could get out of it…
funny… but even the play by play said it read like a divorce case
and to a T all the ladies didnt think rules apply to them EQUALLY
and usually they dont (for them)
its a lot of fun till someone gets hurt
and these ladies were never really thinking about the lives of their charges
but instead, still wanted to be young and part of the revolution
of course we will have to ignore what i just said as we are not allowed to criticize like that unless they have a penis, are straight, and dont think they are a woman today… (their rules, not mine)
No, first on the chopping block will be the hourly staff, then appropriations for term-appointments to the faculty and adjunct positions.
NO..
they will use this as an opportunity to make diversity changes
and like where i work, fire all the lower level white males (if any left)
they may even re-hire h1b as there is no limit for them in education
and they will get more money from the state, just like where i work
did you think their evil was their own?
no, they know they are supported in it… wait and see..
I assume an appellate court will reduce the award (and that Oberlin is banking on this).
If Raimondo, Varner, and Ambar are not sh!tcanned, I’m hoping the state attorney-general, the secretary of state, the state board of regents or whomever is all over the trustees for breach of fiduciary duty. In New York, there was a case around 1997 of a college board removed tout court for less than this.
3 white women sue ‘totalitarian’ diversity-obsessed NYC school system for discrimination
this behavior exterminated my family and the dreams my wife and i had
they also abusd austistic. and more.. .
nothing neo or anyone could do to help…
which is why we are waiting to die..
never to retire, never to have kids never to have a home
all because i worked for that kind of people
neo could show you the abuse… but never will…
been there done that… now there is no hope ever…
Asian-Americans were overrepresented at Harvard: in 2013, they made up eighteen per cent of undergraduates, despite being only about five per cent of the country’s population. But at the California Institute of Technology, which does not employ racial preferences, Asian-Americans made up forty-three per cent of undergraduates—a figure that had increased by more than half over the previous two decades, while Harvard’s percentage had remained relatively flat. The plaintiffs used SAT scores and other data to argue that administrators had made it “far more difficult for Asian-Americans than for any other racial and ethnic group of students to gain admission to Harvard.” They claimed that Harvard, in its pursuit of racial parity, was not only rewarding black and Latino students but also penalizing Asian-American students—who were, after all, minorities, too.
i was a few points shy of a perfect score
under the above, i would have to have a score higher than perfect
so i never go to go…
sister did… she has many degrees all paid for…
but she has what the people here have, a pudenda…
its what you need now in medicine!!!
we have whole floors of one gender…
whole departments…
and others who are all one race, or one immigration pool, etc
but they exterminated my family
what would they do to my wife if i tried to let the world know?
cant wait till i die…
a day to celebrate..
A century ago, a number of selective colleges grew concerned about the burgeoning cohort of Jewish students; some used a de-facto quota system to limit their numbers, and to protect access for non-Jewish whites. A. Lawrence Lowell, the president of Harvard, proposed capping the proportion of Jews at fifteen per cent, partly for their own good—more Jews, he argued, might further inflame “anti-Semitic feeling among the students.” Harvard’s Jewish-quota system began to fade away in the nineteen-thirties, under Lowell’s successor, and it now seems unthinkable. In 2002, Gordon Gee, the chancellor of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, told the Wall Street Journal that he planned to improve the school’s reputation by “targeting Jewish students” for recruitment.
Artflblabbermouth,
CalTech is an engineering school with fewer than 3,000 students. It’s not representative of much of anything.
even the left says isolation is a means of torture..
they tortured me… for aspergers… kept my IP…
and get consultant level work for entry level..
couldnt even show you guys the office they did to me..
Oberline is nothing compared to what they been doing accross the nation for 35 years
My heart and soul is aligned toward defense, not prosecution or plaintiff. That being said, this was a case where the defendant truly and deeply deserved to lose. Justice has been rendered in this verdict.
And yes, Neo gets to the crux of why punitive damages are supposed to hurt. They are designed to punish!
In August of 2017, when the three shoplifters plead guilty and were put on probation, Toni Myers, Oberlin College’s Multicultural Resource Center Director then, send out a text which said, “After a year, I hope we rain fire and brimstone on that store.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/gibsons-bakery-v-oberlin-college-closing-argument-when-a-powerful-institution-says-you-are-racist-you-are-doomed/
“Fuck him,” Raimondo responded in a message. “I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/gibsons-bakery-v-oberlin-college-trial-day-3-to-unleash-the-students-or-not-that-was-the-question/
I’m not sure the Oberlin high command is capable of self-awareness, when it comes max punitive damages, but they might want to check their privilege in these quotes.
I was struck that all the Oberlin staff who showed themselves as vindictive, SJW idiots were women. By which I don’t mean to say women are idiots, but these particular women were almost certainly hired for their intersectional SJW cred, not their competence.
Get woke, go broke.
Maybe we have reached Peak Woke.
Peak woke personified; cost her employer $44M$ (one can hope)
https://legalinsurrection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Gibson-Bakery-Oberlin-College-Trial-Meredith-Raimondo.jpg
Oopsie, dat’s some justice!
Justice meted to diversity and social justice activists.
A century ago, a number of selective colleges grew concerned about the burgeoning cohort of Jewish students; some used a de-facto quota system to limit their numbers
The National Socialists’ “Jew privilege” concept persists under Progressives’ “White privilege” judgment. The color quotas are policy under diversity (i.e. color judgment) doctrine. All of them are ethical under the Pro-Choice quasi-religion and quasi-legal under the Twilight Amendment, which gave us, among other things, selective-child a.k.a. planned parenthood (e.g. summary judgments) and other lesser wicked solutions.
Om,
Ouch!
That picture explains a lot.
The face you deserve at forty,,,
Feel good story of the day !
Here’s hoping the juries on the Covington cases are as wise as the twelve citizens that jammed it to Oberlin.
Maybe the crazy charges of racism against anyone will stop.
Oberlin’s Meredith Raimondo will become the academic left’s latest hero and martyr, a victim of the deplorables. Enormous speaking fees and a book contract will follow. Who knows, maybe even a movie directed by Oliver Stone. And then her name will start showing up on lists of prospective nominees for Bernie Sanders’s running mate. A small donation from George Soros will top off the endowment fund. We watch as history is rewritten for us.
When regular people are exposed to the unfiltered left, they don’t like it. At all.
Back on the Human Rights post, DNW linked a piece by Kate Millett’s sister Mallory, which pretty much explains the position of the female admins at Oberlin, not to mention most of the students; although I doubt they read Millett anymore, she poisoned not just the well, but the whole water table.
The Feminazis destroyed the world on purpose, by design, and really are just as evil as we have finally begun to realize.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269251/my-sister-kate-destructive-feminist-legacy-kate-mark-tapson
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/240037/marxist-feminisms-ruined-lives-mallory-millett
I’m so so glad they lost so far, about as much as they could lose.
When it sticks, and their lawfare fails to save them from paying for their crimes, then, and only then, will the PC-Klan racist defamers start to stop.
It’s already decades late, but “never too late” as long as some survive to rebuild.
The Oberlin Pres. and most staff should be fired, but the Board of Trustees is already too much on board with that.