Posted on 06/11/2019 3:37:34 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
Attorneys for Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo moved for a mistrial June 11 in a libel suit brought against them by Gibsons Food Mart and Bakery.
On June 7, a Lorain County Common Pleas Court jury awarded the plaintiffs $11 million.
The jury was scheduled to hear the punitive portion of the trial, but attorneys for Oberlin College produced five motions to the court moments before they were to return to the courtroom.
Because of this, Common Pleas Judge John R. Miraldi called a recess while he reviewed the motions and released the jury for the day.
In making his oral motion asking for the mistrial, Ronald D. Holman II claimed the case could not go forward because Miraldi did not require the jurors to break down their June 7 rulings on compensatory damage by each claim.
This same jury has ruled the College and Raimondo committed libel against David R. Gibson, his father, Allyn W. Gibson, and their business, Gibson Bros. Inc., which owns Gibson's Food Mart and Bakery.
They also found Oberlin College had inflicted intentional emotion distress again David and Allyn Gibson and that Raimondo interfered with the business relationship between Gibson Bros. Inc. and the College.
The jury awarded $5.8 million in compensatory damages to David Gibson, $3 million to Allyn Gibson and $2,274,500 to Gibson Bros. Inc., which operates the bakery.
Holman argued the lack of a breakdown of how much money was based on which claim would make it impossible for Miraldi to instruct the jury on how much money they could award in punitive damages.
Miraldi did not rule on the motion from the bench. The trial is scheduled to continue at 10 a.m. June 12.
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I’ll spare linking a photo of Meredith Raimondo. Let’s just say she is the poster child of the as “ugly on the outside as the inside”
The sooner they are BK the better America will be
“Miraldi did not rule on the motion from the bench, but later denied the request in a journal entry, according to court officials.
The trial is scheduled to continue at 10 a.m. June 12.”
In a just world, Oberlin College would go bankrupt and its campus and buildings become a world-class PUBLIC shooting range complete with “combat town” training capabilities.
Shut it down. Might as well. I am not that far away in PA. I can guarantee you their diplomas are now worth $0.00 to me; and I have hired 3 people in the past year, and another one headed to retirement by year’s end, that will be 4.
I can guarantee you that I will *never* hire an applicant with Oberlin College on their resume.
Stop wasting your money, parents! Yank your kids out of there, and go somewhere else - anywhere else!
It is in Ohio.
Oberlin is far, far, left of center.
OHIO PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.
“Oberlin College asks for mistrial in Gibson’s case.”
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