Is this crazy or what

[Mad Russian]

All Stella Liebeck ever asked from McDonalds was for them to pay her medical expenses, like they had done hundreds of times before, in incidents concerning their hot coffee, and to put a warning label on the coffee. They refused.

The jury also did not award a monetary damage value in the case. The damages were set at one days worth of coffee sales by McDonalds. They had no idea how much money that would be.

And, oh yes, McDonalds was instructed to put warning labels on their coffee when all was said and done.

The whole cost, to the corporation, would have been minimal if they had treated this case like all the others. So, the real winners of the Stupid Award, in that case, was McDonald's for making it go to trial in the first place.

We did a case study of this lawsuit when I was in college.

Good Hunting.

MR