[Tomdarkness]

As someone from the UK I'm a bit confused why he can't seem to get the college to pay him? If a court has ruled that the college has to pay how can they avoid this? In the UK if a company failed to pay a debt then ultimately you can apply to the court for a winding up petition which if they didn't resolve the situation the company would be liquidated by the court.

[drewbeck]

Ya it's only been two days since the state supreme court ruling. Oberlin could keep appealing to the feds, which they may do. Imo the "when will we see our money" is a bit silly; an emotional appeals when this process always entails a ton of legal appeals before the …final_final_forReal.PDF decision is handed down.

[ifsothen]

Only appeal from a state supreme court decision is directly to the US Supreme Court, which is generally not very interested in those kinds of appeals.

[koolba]

For more than 30 million dollars I wouldn’t be surprised if they give it shot on first amendment grounds. The gamble would be the additional legal fees v.s. the chance of success.

[Analemma_]

Not a chance. The current Supreme Court is going to relish denying appeal in this case.

[drewbeck]

Ah yes of course, spaced on the Ohio court not actually ruling in this case. thx

[tengwar2]

From a UK perspective, it is not obvious that they can keep appealing. Here there needs to be a legal basis for an appeal. I am not sure about civil cases, but the criminal case grounds for appeal appear to be:

* new evidence - but only under a set of conditions including that there was a reasonable explanation for the failure to adduce it;

* appeal against sentence.

Notably there doesn't seem to be an option for "we don't like the verdict". A judge must grant a certificate of appeal before the case can go ahead - someone can't decide unilaterally that they will appeal. Appeals are nowhere near as common here as in the USA

[coffeeblack]

Ah, that makes more sense. So they are still open routes for appeals and the ruling isn’t final yet.

[neaden]

It looks like the Ohio supreme court just declined to hear the case yesterday, and before that they were appealing the ruling. IANAL but I would assume that it's only now that Gibson's will be able to really go after them for the money.

[tptacek]

She will in fact get the college to pay her, because the college has no choice. The story is deeply misleading on this point.