![Four generations of Gibsons after jury verdict. (Legal Insurrection Foundation]](https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2019/06/07/gibson_family_c0-54-900-578_s885x516.jpg?0f45d593cc0487556388e24a0fc280ae69bdeda6)
The owners of an Ohio bakery who sued for libel after being targeted by student protests won Friday an $11 million verdict against Oberlin College.
A Lorain County jury ordered Oberlin to pay $11 million in compensatory damages to Gibson’s Bakery, a local fixture since 1885 that was beset by protests and racism allegations after three black students were arrested for shoplifting the day after the 2016 presidential election.
“The jury saw that Oberlin College went out of their way to harm a good family and longtime business in their community for no real reason, and the jury said we aren’t going to tolerate that in our community anymore,” Owen Rarric, an attorney for the Gibsons, told Legal Insurrection.
