Ohio's Oberlin College accrued more than $4 million in interest stemming from the Gibson's Bakery lawsuit, where a jury found the school guilty of libeling the bakery as racist.
An appeals court has ruled unanimously that an Ohio college still has to pay a family-run bakery tens of millions of dollars for falsely defaming the owners.
Oberlin College must pay a record $31 million to a mom-and-pop bakery that accused the school of ruining its business with false accusations of racism, according to three judges on the Ninth District Court of Appeals, which issued a 3-0 decision upholding a 2019 ruling in the case. The award is the largest defamation verdict in Ohio history.