Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College –
Court rejects attempt to unseal
store clerk’s private Facebook records
Legal Insurrection,
by
William A. Jacobson
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
5/6/2020 3:14:41 PM
After a monumental compensatory and punitive damages jury verdict in favor of Gibson’s Bakery and its owners against Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, the college launched a public relations campaign claiming, among other things, that the Gibsons really were racist even though the jury found the accusation of racial profiling false and defamatory.(Snip)As part of that campaign seeking to impugn the Gibsons post-trial, Oberlin College sought to unseal the confidential Facebook records of Allyn D. Gibson, the store clerk whose stop of a black Oberlin College student for shoplifting sparked the protests, accusations of racial profiling, business cut-off, and eventually, lawsuit and jury trial.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/6/2020 3:15:44 PM (No. 402901)
A “group of Cleveland media and a local press association” played no role in the case, and did not provide much original reporting about the case, filed a motion to unseal which “smelled rotten” to the Professor Jacobson.
The Gibson’s opposed the motion to unseal calling it an attempt to “dox” Allyn D. Gibson, who was the subject of threats previously, in addition to several other reasons.
Also, the Gibson’s “alleged collusion between Oberlin College and the non-party media group, based on ties between Oberlin College’s lead trial counsel and those media entities.”
Judge John Miraldi “just ruled, denying the motion to unseal.”
Professor Jacobson “hoped the court would get into the collusion issue,” but acknowledges that the judge “limited himself to what was necessary to decide” as he had done throughout the case and guesses the “Cleveland media folks” will appeal “because there always was something else going on here, and that something else is still going on.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/6/2020 3:19:12 PM (No. 402904)
Sue Oberlin again.
I always like that line where Captain Jack Sparrow said "Shoot him! then cut out his tongue Then shoot his tongue!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 5/6/2020 3:33:27 PM (No. 402918)
Keep it up Oberlin, KEEP IT UP. I'm excited about watching you CRASH AND BURN.
How big are the REFUNDS you are granting to your cheated students? What's your 2020-21 enrollment going to look like?
CRASH, you entitled elitists!
CRASH!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/6/2020 3:57:15 PM (No. 402927)
I wish there were some way to increase the damage award. Significantly.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/6/2020 3:59:20 PM (No. 402930)
One of my nieces graduated from Oberlin, with a degree in something you can’t get a job with. When she left for college, she was a fairly normal 18-year-old girl. When she finished, she was a flaming liberal nutcase who’s real hard to be around. I hope that place goes broke.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/6/2020 4:13:34 PM (No. 402943)
I hate to break it to anybody who uses Facebook, but Oberlin College already has the postings. The defense in the case is just trying to legally present them. Kind of like President Trumps income taxes for the last 20 years. The democrats have them, they just want to be able to present them and make them look as bad as possible legally.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OhioNick 5/6/2020 5:16:27 PM (No. 402990)
The article asks a question that I can answer. Why did News 5 Cleveland and Cleveland.com suddenly care about this case, and demanded to see a private Facebook page?
There are four television news outlets in Cleveland, and Channel 5 WEWS is by far the most left-wing of the four. You can see that on their news webpage, where you'll always find "gotcha" and snarky articles about Republicans and Conservatives. As for Cleveland.com, that's the webpage of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Unless you've read that paper over the last several years, you wouldn't believe me when I tell you that it's the most radical, far-left major, news outlet in the country -- even more so than the Washington Post or the New York Times.
So it's no surprise that the communists who run these two outlets want the verdict overturned.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2020 5:29:28 PM (No. 403001)
Oberlin is evil.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/6/2020 6:37:58 PM (No. 403067)
the Cleveland connection..isn't The Rumpled One" Sherwood Brown's wifey ??Connie Schultz connected to the Plain Dealer???
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
czechlist 5/6/2020 7:00:10 PM (No. 403106)
Social Justice Warriors and dimocrats will not accept defeat
Intimidation is their first weapon of choice. Favorable Courts are the second
I am surprised the bakery is still standing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jj1319 5/6/2020 7:36:05 PM (No. 403147)
#9 has a detailed memory.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/6/2020 8:56:48 PM (No. 403221)
I am in favor of anything that gets more of Oberlin's cash cow. (Each dime therein is part of a government grant.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/6/2020 9:11:02 PM (No. 403226)
#11 yeah, it's a blessing and a curse!!!!!!!!!ROFL!!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/6/2020 9:19:37 PM (No. 403231)
#9- LOL! Terrific memory! Fabulous sense of humor!
#11- Yes, and #9 probably remembers that, like AlGore served in Vietnam, Connie won a Pulitzer for her columns on behalf of underdogs and the underprivileged.
#13- Fully understand a blessing and a curse.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/6/2020 10:37:11 PM (No. 403288)
The price of the College was court ordered to pay needs to double every day until they pay up!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/6/2020 10:49:57 PM (No. 403298)
#8- It seems Oberlin College holds more concern for its students being able to vote in presidential elections than it does for the reputation and livelihood of a 134-year-old, fifth generation family business and their employees in Oberlin. The college has been known to charter busses to transport students from Oberlin to the Lorain County, Ohio Board of Elections so students could cast their votes.
For the 2008 presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain, according to an article in The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), “more than 1200 Oberlin students took advantage of these busses that were provided with funding from the college.”
According to an Oberlin College student blogger, they boarded a bus from the parking lot of Mudd library in the early afternoon and returned to campus around 7:00 PM in time for dinner. He wrote that he, “along with probably over 300 other Obies that day, stood waiting on the front lawn of the Board of Elections, chatting, lounging, playing guitar, singing songs, swinging poi, and, of course, eventually making our own marks on history.”
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/7/2020 3:34:22 AM (No. 403427)
#14 well, now I am ..blushing!!! that was so nice..in fact, I am going to print this thread and keep it....
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