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Starbucks ordered to pay $50 million to delivery driver burned by hot coffee

Allan

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This award will no doubt be reduced on appeal.

Ouch!


 
Starbucks got deeper pockets than MacDonald's?
 
dmpi said:
Starbucks got deeper pockets than MacDonald's?
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US juries aren't much fussed about a company's ability to pay.
 
$50 million? Did John Holmes burn his dick off with this coffee?
 

He wasnt. It's in the article, what happened.
 
Here we go again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants. Cue a lot of people who do not know either the facts of the case, or the arguments , or understand the actual damages involved or the legal theory behind punitive damages, or the judicial process post jury verdict, to pass amateur hour opinions on the state of tort law all across the country.

That one verdict absolutely saved a hell of a lot of consumers from a hell of a lot of third degree burns.
 
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