Shamed Oberlin College FINALLY pays $25M to Gibson's bakery, but both father and son owners have died

Shamed Oberlin College FINALLY pays $25M to Gibson's bakery, but both father and son owners have died
David Gibson and Allyn Gibson (left and right) have won the defamation libel against Oberlin College which they filed in 2017 (Gibson's Bakery/Facebook)

OBERLIN, OHIO: After being sued for libel over a shoplifting incident involving three black students, Oberlin College has already paid up the $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery. The store's proprietors, Allyn Gibson and his son David Gibson filed a lawsuit against Oberlin College in 2017, alleging that the college had libeled them and that the demonstrations over the shoplifting had hurt their business.

Both Allyn and David Gibson had alleged at the time that the accusations had caused the store to close down but they died before the settlement was finalized. The protracted legal battle involving a liberally inclined municipality and school that lasted a year turned into a discussion on political correctness, free speech, and racism. In 2019, a Lorain County jury gave the Gibsons a $44 million judgment which was later reduced to $25 million. In August, the Ohio Supreme Court announced that it would not hear an appeal of the ruling. According to Brandon McHugh, an attorney for the Gibsons, all of the money has finally been paid to the family-owned bakery, WKYC-TV in Cleveland reported. The institution also paid more than $11 million in attorney fees and interest on top of the $25 million judgment.

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Oberlin College in Ohio lost a defamation libel against Gibson's bakery (Oberlin College/Facebook)
Oberlin College in Ohio lost a defamation libel against Gibson's bakery (Oberlin College/Facebook)