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Liebeck v. McDonald’s. The Hot Coffee Case. By Allison Torres Burtka. Stella Liebeck, the 79-year-old woman who was severely burned by McDonald’s coffee that she spilled in her lap in 1992, was unfairly held up as an example of frivolous litigation in the public eye. But the facts of the case tell a very different story. The coffee that burned Stella Liebeck was dangerously hot—hot.
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Hot Coffee is divided into four main parts. The first deals with the highly publicized case of McDonalds and an elderly lady, Stella Liebeck, who suffered life-threatening burns from a cup of coffee bought from the fast-food restaurant. Although media reports led people to believe that she was driving at the time and behaving without due care, in fact she was sitting in a car that was not.
The now-infamous McDonald’s coffee case has led to much discussion about tort reform. Former personal injury lawyer and corporate negligence attorney, Susan Saladoff’s documentary film Hot Coffee examines the “Era of Frivolous Lawsuits” in the United States and addresses many misconceptions about the “Hot Coffee” case. Widely regarded as the quintessential case of citizens taking.
The McDonald's coffee case has been routinely cited by the media as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of the legal system. We will show how this case became so popular in the media, who funded the effort and to what end. We will tell the truth and let the audience decide if spilling hot coffee is really as profitable as they might otherwise believe.
A Film About Coffee is a look at people's love of coffee - from those who just require their hits at certain points in the day to those who take it very very seriously. It's absolutely beautifully filmed and shows just how diverse the coffee market has quickly become. From coffee harvests in Rwanda to bean hunting in Honduras this documentary follows the full life cycle of coffee from the.
Review: This was a brief, interesting overview of the science and history of caffeine and all of the wonderful and terrible things it does to the human brain. I could have done without Pollan's long personal story about what it was like to stop drinking coffee for a few months and then start up again because yes, I too have detoxed from caffeine from time to time, and I too am aware it makes.