Oberlin Satisfies Judgment In Incendiary Libel Case

Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio, has satisfied in full a $25 million judgment to a local bakery that won a libel suit against the school. The bakery was awarded $44 million, later reduced to $25 million, in its libel suit against the college filed after the owners’ son tackled a Black student he suspected of shoplifting and two other Black students intervened. All three were arrested, which triggered protests of the bakery, a student senate resolution against the bakery, and the school to institute a policy forbidding its campus food provider from purchasing goods from the bakery.

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