McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit - McDonald's Hot Coffee Burns Woman
On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck
spilled McDonald's hot coffee in her lap
after putting it between her legs and
taking the lid off in her car. After
ending up in the hospital with third
degree burns, she sued McDonald's, with
her lawyer arguing that the coffee was
unreasonably hot and therefore
unreasonably dangerous. Liebeck was
awarded $2.9 million but claims that she
didn't do it for the money. She says she
launched the McDonald's coffee lawsuit so
McDonald's would bring the temperature
down and no one else would get hurt. This
report investigates the story, including
how it spiraled into a national punchline.
The report attempts to show why the case
wasn't as absurd as what people believed,
including showing photographs of the skin
grafts Liebeck needed to repair her burns.
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