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Originally Posted by redpoint5
The original lawsuit was for $20k, which McDonalds refused to pay. A jury later awarded Liebeck $2.86 million, and a judge reduced that amount to $640,000.
Watch Hot Coffee if you are interested in the story. Many people change their opinion once seeing the film. I did not (the lawsuit was frivolous). |
$640K is still a sizable award for a frivolous lawsuit. (Actually I'd call it a lawsuit without merit, as the injury suffered by the plaintiff was due to her own carelessness.) I wonder how much the lawyers got from it?