Oberlin College
Oberlin not yet on the hook for defamation case, Ohio Supreme Court rules
An Ohio college still won’t be required to pay damages to a local bakery, based on a ruling in an ongoing defamation case with the Ohio Supreme Court. The case started in 2017, after an incident at a store owned by the Gibson family the year before. A member of the family who was working […]
Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College: A case on being adults, not fighting discrimination
On the first day of the civil trial in May of 2019, where a small business was suing Oberlin College for branding it as racist, I was somewhat shocked by the testimony of Ferdinand Protzman, a longtime communications specialist for the liberal arts school. A key part of the trial was to show why the […]