An Ohio appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that awarded over $32 million to a family-owned bakery that was almost pushed out of business because of false accusations of racial profiling. A panel of three judges on Ohio’s 9th District Court of Appeals on Friday unanimously ruled in favor of Gibson’s Bakery, which was initially awarded by a county judge more than $40 million in punitive and compensatory damages in its defamation lawsuit against Oberlin College. The amount was later reduced to $25 million with $6 million for lawyers’ fees. The lawsuit stems from a shoplifting incident at Gibson’s Bakery, a 5th generation family business that has been serving the college town of Oberlin, Ohio, since 1885. In November 2016, store clerk Allyn D. Gibson caught a black Oberlin student stealing wine bottles from the store. He was joined by two other black Oberlin students in the ensuing …