Nightmare at Oberlin | Power Line
Things haven t gone well for Oberlin College in court recently. First, it was found liable for defaming Gibson s Bakery. After the bakery s owner tried to stop a black student from shoplifting, the Oberlin student senate condemned the bakery as racist and called for a boycott of its products, which Oberlin stopped purchasing for a time. A jury awarded the Gibson family $44 million in damages, reduced to $33 million by operation of Ohio law. The case is on appeal in state court (not federal court, as I mistakenly said in the original post).
Now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that a male student may proceed with a claim of sex discrimination against Oberlin for railroading him out of the college for alleged sexual assault. The case was filed under Title IX, which bars universities that receive federal funds from discriminating against students based on their sex.