The huge punitive damages assessed against Oberlin College violate both the law and are not in the public interest.
Share to twitterA jury has decided that Oberlin College must pay more than $44 million in damages to Gibson's Bakery.The Ohio jury has spoken in the libel case against Oberlin and it has spoken loudly and ferociously. In addition to the more than $11 million in regular damages that Oberlin already has to payThis was a very angry jury.
Nonetheless, the verdict is a threat to freedom of speech and to the future of universities. Oberlin College’s connections to the libelous speech are too tenuous for this sort of verdict. Gibson’s legal complaint mentions a student senate resolution and makes much of the fact that the college allowed them to display it on college property.
All of this is a slim reed upon which to rest so ferocious a verdict. As noted in my previous post, there is a culture clash between the very liberal college and the more conservative town. I attended Oberlin College in the 1980s and was fortunate enough to have made a few friends in the town. They were good-natured but they often teased me about the low repute the students had among the “townies”.
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