In 1994, a McDonalds customer called Stella Liebeck was awarded nearly $3 million in damages by a New Mexico civil jury after she spilled coffee on herself.
The affair has long since gone down in history as the most extreme case of frivolous litigation – ‘the poster child of excessive lawsuits’.
As the New York Times revealed this week (or, more accurately ‘recapped’, as the details had been investigated before) the story wasn’t quite so cut and dried.
Not Just A Hot Cup Anymore (New York Times)
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