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The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

You're Wrong About

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Is There a Florence Leibach?

Stella Leibach sued McDonald's after she got burns from a hot cup of coffee. The story led to the term jackpot justice, which is when people thought everyone should sue every large corporation for behaving in a predictable way. "I feel like maybe this isn't true, but my understanding was that it was because of this that like whenever you get a beverage from anywhere, still today, if it's hot, it'll say like caution, content's hot," says David Bianculli.

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