Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College – Trial Day 7 — Damages Expert says Show Gibson’s The Money!

Legal Insurrection ^ | 20-May-2019 | Daniel McGraw

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Full title "Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College – Trial Day 7 — Damages Expert says Show Gibson’s The Money!"

oday was Day 7 of witness testimony in Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College. The events giving rise to the lawsuit have been said to represent “the worst of identity politics.” You can read about some of the background on this case here.

The court addressed damage issues from a legal perspective earlier in the case, as described in our post Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial motions – What’s a reputation worth, and how do you prove it?

In a half day of testimony that was full of numbers, the jury deciding whether Oberlin College defamed and libeled a small business heard that the bakery/market had already lost and will lose about $5.8 million from the school’s alleged racist accusations. That number was arrived at by an independent accountant who based that figure on losses over a 30 year period.

“When you look at how the revenues have declined, it is clear that those numbers represent that something major happened,” said Frank Monaco, a certified public accountant who is managing partner for a 60-member accounting and financial consulting firm based in Canton, Ohio. Monaco has been a CPA for almost 40 years.

He said he based his 30-year estimates on the fact that Gibson’s Bakery & Market, has been around for more than 130 years and that “when you have people thinking you’re racist, and you live in a small town, the accusation can last a lifetime.” He said 30 years was a “generational” estimate, being that Gibson’s family has been in the business for five generations.

[Just mythoughts]

Good Music College that costs $50K+/year. Hopefully the media coverage will cause some financial pain to this liberal hotbed.

I have a relative presently in the conservatory.. Even IF there is financial pain handed down, that pain will be filtered down to the parents via tuition hikes. The organizers knew full well they personally would not be held to account. It is the epitome of liberalism.

[Kickass Conservative]

The Administrators should be held FINANCIALLY and PERSONALLY liable for their actions.

They should have been fired for putting the College at risk to promote their Leftist partisanship.

[Wuli]

In my view it is a branch of academia that is on trial, and the real problem requires the Leftist orthodoxy in academia being ripped out root and branch.

[bitt]

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[bitt]

eggzactly!!!!!

[Saltmeat]

How does the administration rationalize sticking up for thieves when it has nothing to do with educating the students attending the college? If the thieves were students they should have been expelled by dawn the following day. By the same token, if the baby is healthy and the mother is healthy how can abortion be about health care. The liberals are way to often anything but rational.

[morphing libertarian]

been downhill ever since

[Dark Knight]

If the minor bruising of the person in the store was caused by the “thieves” they are now robbers. The use of force bumps it up. Downgrading the crime is also another way of minimizing their responsibility. Three against one...use of force...not a five finger discount.

DK