I am happy to report that in neither of the following two situations did Libs get their way. Yay! Dang, this feels so just. Hoorah, hoorah for the little guy!!!!!
The lawsuit stems from an incident on Nov. 9, 2016, in which a black Oberlin student tried to “steal or otherwise illegally obtain” wine from Gibson’s, according to the complaint. Following the incident, Allyn Gibson, who is white, and an owner and employee at Gibson’s Bros. Inc, which operates Gibson’s Food Mart and Bakery, pursued and “engaged in a physical altercation” with the student, according to the court’s summary judgment. The student and two friends, who are also black, were arrested.
After the black students were arrested, student protests erupted, claiming that the robbery charge and physical conflict were racially motivated. Protesters urged patrons to shop elsewhere.
The students pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in August, 2017, reading statements into the record that Mr. Gibson was within his rights to detain the robber and that the conflict was not racially motivated.
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| Protesters outside Gibson's Food Mart and Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, Nov. 10, 2016. PHOTO: BRUCE BISHOP/THE CHRONICLE |
Gibson’s Bros. Inc, as well as its owners and employees David Gibson and Allyn Gibson, brought a lawsuit against both Oberlin College and Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo, alleging libel and accusing the school of supporting the students’ actions against Gibson’s and cutting economic ties with the bakery.The jury ... ruled in favor of Gibson’s, finding the college and its dean of students guilty for the libel of both Gibsons and their bakery. It found only the college guilty of inflicting emotional distress on both David and Allyn Gibson. Additionally, the jurors found Ms. Raimondo responsible for interference of business relationships. The jury set compensatory damages for Gibson’s at $11 million. -- Toledo Blade
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Nine months ago, a Florida real estate mogul’s pledge to donate $26.5 million to the University of Alabama — the most generous gift in the school’s 188-year history — was announced with great enthusiasm and fanfare. On Friday, the money he had given so far — some $21.5 million — was unceremoniously returned via wire transfer and a campus work crew was removing the businessman’s name from the law school that had been named in his honor.
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| The University of Alabama School of Law sign on Friday after employees removed the name of the donor, Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. Blake Paterson/Associated Press |
The unanimous vote Friday morning by the board of trustees to return the money that Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., the real estate executive, had already given to the university was a bitter and dramatic conclusion to a relationship that included a dispute over how the money should be spent and a call to boycott the state school system because of a recently passed law that essentially bans abortions in Alabama...
Read the NY Times article in full H E R EBut in the end, the dispute between the university and Mr. Culverhouse became a public and politicized controversy over the state’s new abortion law, with Mr. Culverhouse holding the passage of the sweeping measure against a law school that had nothing to do with it. It also became a prime example of how the recent wave of anti-abortion policies passed in the South has sucked observers on the sidelines into the controversy. - NY Times
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. ( 1 Corinthians 3:19)
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