
The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
You're Wrong About
00:00
X-Tree Coffee - The Case of a McDonald's Coffee Spill
Stella Liebeck was awarded nearly $2.9 million in punitive damages on $160,000 in compensatory damages after she was burned by a cup of coffee purchased at a drive through window. The story is written in this what they call inverted pyramid style and it's one of those boring things I've ever read. "I feel like it makes sense to me that this is the kind of thing that you would read or if you were doing like drive time radio," he says.
Transcript
Play full episode