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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

JonathanTurley

When some people contacted Oberlin to object that the students admitted guilt, special assistant to the president for community and government relations Tita Reed wrote that it did not change a “damn thing” for her. The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. That comes to $31.2

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. The imposition of tort liability on service providers for the communications of others represented, for Congress, simply another form of intrusive government regulation of speech. The jury hung in the first trial of this case, which necessitated a second trial.

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