Clearly you guys know nothing of the McDonald's coffee suit.
Clearly you guys know nothing of the McDonald's coffee suit.
Clearly you guys know nothing of the McDonald's coffee suit.
Coffee is brewed at between 205 and 210 degrees Fahrenheit. Willingly purchasing said product implies that one knows that coffee is hot, and liable to scald if you pour it on yourself (or squeeze it between your legs, causing the lid to come off and the contents to overflow).
Frivolous lawsuit, period.
Do you care to elaborate? I am pretty familiar with the case, although not intimately.
But now, after 17 years of practicing civil litigation, my attitude has changed. I still don't buy it, don't see his point, think that professor should never teach another student and want the judge and jury tracked down and flogged.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Actual Facts about the Mcdonalds' Coffee Case
https://www.ttla.com/index.cfm?pg=McDonaldsCoffeeCaseFacts
I can't find the story ATM, but I had also heard that the particular McDonald's had been cited numerous times over the preceding year by the local county health department for serving coffee that was too hot by local legal standards. That puts their conduct in the willful negligence category.