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Oberlin College Hit With Maximum Punitive Damages
The civil judgement against Oberlin College for its SJW mau-mauing of Gibson’s Bakery just tripled from $11 million to $33 million. Thursday, the jury assessed the maximum punitive damages of $22 million against the school. Legal Insurrection has been all over this:
Daniel McGraw, our reporter in the courtroom, reports that in addition to the $11.2 million compensatory damages awarded last Friday, the jury awarded a total of $33 million in punitive damages, which will probably be reduced by the court to $22 million because of the state law cap at twice compensatory (it’s not an absolute cap, but probably will apply here). That brings the total damages to $33 million. We will have the breakdown soon. The jury also awarded attorney’s fees, to be determined by the judge.
Oberlin disregarded the first rule of holes – when you find you have dug yourself into a hole stop digging.
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Yea, but losing one in a high profile way pour encourager les autres wouldn’t be so bad.
The content of the e-mail got to the jury during the punitive damages testimony phase. How? The plaintiff’s lawyers got one of the Oberlin defense witnesses to talk about it during that witness’s testimony. He started a line of questioning about the school’s reaction to the verdict, and it just sort of came out. Volunteered by an Obie administrator completely tone-deaf to the effect of the school’s distain for the jury would have. (The peasants should know their place, after all.)
Yummy schadenfreude!
Yes. Very bad. I mean, like, really, really bad. It’s not fair!
Your happiness makes me feel uncomfortable. I am disappointed, angry and filled with contempt. I demand retribution.
You need to be unhappy so I can be happy. That’s how it should be.
The message will be delivered to the others when they get their next premium notices from their insurance companies.
I am confident this wasn’t insured. If it was insured, it would have been settled. Only a self-righteous college administrator could have been this foolish. An insurance company would have cut its losses long ago.
Apparently it is not insured, but the self-righteous college administrators who refused to settle thought it was insured. Oberlin has liability insurance, but the insurance company is claiming the liability insurance does not cover intentional torts, and that this case falls under that category.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
There will be a court fight over that. If the insurance company wins, liability insurance premiums still go up. If the insurance company loses, liability insurance premiums go way up.
In a world that seems completely crazy, it is so refreshing to see sanity prevail.
Does anyone doubt that diversity officials will be the last to go?
Yea, and I can’t speak to the compensatory damages but it’s exceedingly unlikely the punitives are insured.
Yes, Oberlin was odd – very leftist with a significant homosexual population. My faculty adviser my first semester was the Dean of Students – he was as queer as a three dollar bill and was a homosexual predator – he went after my roommate. The saying around campus was “beware the lean dangler of Dean Langler”.
I played on the college tennis team and the locker room was always full of predators – freaks who would gawk and stare. For about a month there was one predator who would phone my dorm at all hours of the night trying to make advances. Campus security would do nothing, so I took matters into my own hands and from that point on had no more trouble. One probably couldn’t do that today. Oberlin had a lot to offer – but they’ve gone way off the deep end.
I read somewhere that the jurors were not from Oberlin, so it wasn’t so much a town v gown thing.
The problem with the first rule of holes is that sometimes people think they are chasing a gold vein.
Shot. Priceless screen shot from the Oberlin College Twitter account.
Chaser. [Is Harvard racist against both Asian students and successful black men?]
Question: If I’m such an obvious and grotesque white supremacist, why am I so proud of and impressed by Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan? And why am I so assed up at Harvard?
Not gonna happen.
From Oberlin’s website: “Like most private liberal arts schools, the endowment is the financial cornerstone of the College. Nearly all of Oberlin’s 1,700 endowed funds are invested within the General Investment Pool. The College’s General Investment Pool was $887.0 million at June 30, 2018, versus $819.9 million at June 30, 2017, a $67.1 million increase.”
$33 million is pocket change for these leftist thugs. They won’t even notice it.
They should have compared with November 7, 2016.
Wow. You musta been a piece ‘o work. Did ya give the faggot a whoopin’?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
The appreciation of ironical activities involves possessing a sense of humor.
Which I can’t find anywhere on the Left.