Media Aligned With Oberlin College Take
Quest To Unseal Gibson’s Bakery Store Clerk’s
Facebook Records To Ohio Supreme Court
Legal Insurrection,
by
William A. Jacobson
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
7/27/2021 1:45:38 AM
A few days ago I posted about an Ohio appeals court’s dismissal of an appeal by Cleveland media interests seeking to unseal the confidential Facebook records of Allyn D. Gibson. Allyn was the store clerk who stopped an Oberlin College black student shoplifter that led to the false accusations of racial profiling(Snip)Oberlin has friends in certain media outlets that are willing to allow their organizations to be dragged through the dirt in a back handed attempt to get “Exhibit G” released so that Oberlin can use it in their persecution of the Gibson family.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Harlowe 7/27/2021 1:51:48 AM (No. 858236)
FTA: “My Big Takeway No. 2 is that if the Ohio Supreme Court grants this Writ, and orders the trial court to unseal the records, it would severely undermine the normal court discovery process.
(Snip)
“What Oberlin College tried to do when it moved to unseal the records, and what WEWS-TV is doing now, is saying that merely because the records were filed under seal as an attachment to a motion, the records now become public if a media entity asks for them. Remember, these records were not even offered as exhibits at trial, and Allyn was not a witness or a party.
If the records were turned over to the media under these circumstances, litigants would have no reason to cooperate in discovery through confidentiality agreements. If an opposing party (here, Oberlin College) wanted to make confidential records public, it could merely file them under seal, then get a friendly media outlet to petition the court to unseal the records even if the records played no role in the ultimate verdict.
“I’m not sure this point came out as clearly as it could have in the prior briefing. This is an assault not just on the Gibson family’s reputation, but on the practice of consensual confidentiality agreements that avoids the court system being bogged down in discovery motion practice.”
David Gibson succumbed at the age of 65 to pancreatic cancer less than six months after the jury found favor of the Gibson family awarding $43 million in damages. Mr. Gibson’s father, in his 90s, was harassed at his apartment late one evening, tripped, fell and was injured after having opened the door to see what was going on outside. The effort to unseal David Gibson’s son’s Facebook records seems like a fishing expedition for anything that might suggest racism that could lead to threats on his life as well as possible destruction of Gibson properties. Whatever happened to compassion? “Compassion is the basis of morality.” (Arthur Schopenhauer - German Philosopher)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/27/2021 2:19:28 AM (No. 858241)
The boy was just thirsty and it was raciss to refuse to let him have the wine. We know how it works now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 7/27/2021 3:04:21 AM (No. 858252)
Paul Simon wanted to know,”Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?”
I want to know, where have you gone, America?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 7/27/2021 4:23:40 AM (No. 858259)
God, we could really use some help down here. If not, could You consider wrapping things up? Thanks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/27/2021 9:05:58 AM (No. 858468)
This legal tactic resulted in the election of the Kenyan Klown as U.S. Senator from Illinois, and, ultimately, President of a once great nation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2021 10:12:06 AM (No. 858563)
Of course the wildly liberal media will always align with the likes of forever wildly liberal Oberlin College. Oberlin has been known to be far left for decades...
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A miracle that Michele Malkin escaped unscathed from the woke Oberlin College...
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