Jury Awards Gibson's Bakery $11M Against Oberlin College (opens in new tab)

This site has followed the case closely and goes through a lot of the evidence in the linked items. In general, the defendants appeared to go over a line by asserting that the arrest of a shoplifter was based on racial profiling when there was utterly no evidence that the bakery had profiled anybody and when the evidence appeared open-and-shut that shoplifting had occurred (as the guilty pleas eventually confirmed). The other potentially inflammatory element is the huge impact the protests/boycott had on the bakery, essentially almost destroying its business. When you put it all together, it becomes a hard case to defend and the verdict reflects that. At the same time, this is a preliminary report on the verdict and I am sure more details/analysis will follow.