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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYTimes ran an article including an interview with Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment lawyer. Abrams states that “the chances of ultimate reversal of the award are substantial.”[/quote]

It is an opinion, of course. Doesn't mean it will happen.

I suspect the award will be cut down on appeal but the college still found guilty of some liability.

The particular irony, and from Abrams himself, is his saying that the outcome represented “a double-barreled threat to free speech on campus." I'm not sure if there is true free speech on Oberlin's campus. The pattern of thought policing is infamously associated with Oberlin in the last few years.

And free speech has its own restrictions. Shouting fire in a crowded theater doesn't exclude you from prosecution if there was no such fire and damages occurred in the aftermath of the stampede to get out of the theater. The issue at here is defamation and whether the college aided and abetted by that defamation and if so, to what degree is the college responsible for aiding and abetting the defamation against the bakery? The reports on the actions of key Oberlin administrators surrounding the controversy is not helpful on Oberlin's behalf because it shows a pattern of the college administrators intervening on behalf of the students. [/quote]

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