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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2009-06-07 20:08, Scott Cram wrote: The stuff you don't usually hear about the McDonalds case, that surely didn't help them, was that 1) their coffee wasn't just "hot" as we all expect coffee to be, but 20-30 degrees hotter than is typical in the industry. 2) they'd hired experts who advised them to reduce the temperature at which they serve coffee. 3) they'd had numerous cases in the past of serious injury from their coffee. 4) the woman who was burned wanted them to cover her hospital bills (low 5-figures, as I recall). It only became a lawsuit because they refused to do even that much. The nature of a result such as the McDonalds suit isn't that the particular plaintiff "deserved" that much; it's that McDonalds had to lose that much to deter its conduct from harming future parties. We all know that coffee is hot; however, we don't reasonably expect, after getting 155-degree coffee (yup, that's hot) everywhere else, that THIS coffee is going to be 185-degrees (that's hotter, and the difference is significant, medically. It's not "Ow, that was hot! I'm an idiot!" It's "Ow, I have to go the emergency room and get treatment for third degree burns!" That is to say, 1) it was outside the realm of reasonable expectation; and 2) they know that it was, and they were on actual notice from their own experts that the difference posed serious health risks to their customerss.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
I heard the 'Cup bottom fell out' from a Legal show where the lawyers were discussing this problem. The details were explained as to how she got burned and what the burns were.
Also these must be TWO seperate cases. No sweat pants in this one. She had shorts on...(bare thighs).
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I thought it was a brewery by-product? Yeast "extract."
I like to mix it with peanut butter on toast. It's an interesting contrast of flavors. Quote: On 2009-06-05 22:02, Destiny wrote:
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I like the 'sue every medice producer in America' trend the lawyers have going on. By golly, we should not rest until all those companies are out of business!
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I posted this in the thread about web comics, but it fits here too.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/......er=10960 and this fits in with the whole lawsuit angle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfO9JUNXN7U My take on the McDonald's case is; if your product causes third degree burns and similar products do NOT cause third degree burns, you need to re-think your product.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2009-06-05 20:42, LobowolfXXX wrote: Technically the "Froot Loops" people are on better legal group because they're not calling their cereal "Fruit Loops," thus implying it may have real fruit in it some where. They're calling in "Froot Loops." Now you would have to go out and insist that you think there's really something called "Froot" that these "Loops" should be made of. "Fruity Pebbles" are also safe because they're not claiming to be "Fruit Pebbles" only "Fruity" i.e. "Fruit _like_"
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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