She put the hot cup of coffee between her knees and opened it as soon as se got it. What more is there to find out and argue about? The assumption should be it is hot enough to never do that.
“However, the companys own research showed that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving.” And that is something people should never do,ever. What is it that we are supposed to learn from this story?
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
I don’t know the site by the way.
Added: “The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages. This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds’ coffee sales.”

Topics: coffee, Albuquerque, New Mexico, jury, 1992, judge, Mcdonald