insomniac17 said:
and the lady who sued McDonalds (and won) because she spilled hot coffee in her lap. |
While this "patent infringement" might be bullshit, I highly suggest you actually look up the details to that McDonald's suit.
The woman wasn't asking for that much money; the jury awarded her that to punish McDonald's because that suit was the last in several suits McDonalds had been sued for over that very same thing. They used to serve their coffee at 185 degrees or some shit like that and people were actually getting injured when it would spill. Not funny little injuries, but skin-graft-stuck-in-a-hospital-for-days type of injuries.
The judge later reduced the money awarded because the the penalty was unwarranted but after that, McDonald's finally got the point and lowered the temperature of their coffee. If you remember the temperature they used to serve it at, that's a good thing.
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