Most ridiculous lawsuit ever
HRinGA
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Can you believe this guy?
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3119381&page=1[/url]
He's a judge for crying out loud!!!!
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3119381&page=1[/url]
He's a judge for crying out loud!!!!
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Our Elected Elite (morons who know how to talk, campaign, and get elected) decided to "take action" against such reckless, careless, dangerous culinary display by the church ladies that we now have a law forbidding this very thing. All food served at churches, or wherever, must be prepared on site in state approved facilities.
Our churches annual salad luncheon was recently changed to accomodate the new law after our Head Church Lady was "notified" by the state of the dastardly situation the CL's had created by sponsering such a horrific event and that it was against the law. So after hearing from the newly created State Department of Potlucks and Fruit Stands, our Head CL got up in front of the congregation and, with much sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek, proceeded to explain the "changes" the CL's were undertaking to comply with "this critical, lifesaving piece of legislation". Cracked me up.
(uh oh, you got me started)
What most people don't realize (and what the media almost never mentioned) is that McDonald's required its franchises to serve their coffee at a temperature so hot that it would cause THIRD DEGREE BURNS in 2-7 seconds. Think about that. You spill some coffee on yourself and fail to get it off you within seconds, and next thing you know, your skin needs replacing. Not to mention McDonald's knew this - it had received 700 claims for coffee burns over the previous ten years, yet McDonald's continued to serve its coffee much hotter than many other coffee-sellers. The woman who spilled coffee on herself (she was *not* driving, by the way, contrary to many reports - she was, in fact, in the passenger's seat, being driven by her grandson, and her grandson had completely parked the car so that she could add cream and sugar to her coffee. It was when she removed the lid that the backlash from removing the lid caused the coffee to spill on her lap) suffered third-degree burns over six percent of her skin and other burns over 16% of her skin, resulting in her being hospitalized for eight days and undergoing multiple skin grafts.
After all that, all the woman asked for was that McDonald's pay $20,000 to cover her hospital bills. McDonald's makes that much money *from coffee alone* in 39 minutes. McDonald's refused, however, as it did the woman's subsequent attempts to settle for much less than what the jury awarded, and even what the jury award was ultimately reduced to.
I mean, there are still reasonable arguments to be made on each side of this case, but this was not a situation where "dumb woman drives with coffee between her legs then decides to sue when she gets a little burn as a result." (I know you didn't say that, but people typically do). This was a woman who suffered very severe injury and medical costs through little fault of her own, who just wanted McDonald's to cover her medical bills.
So please find some other, actually frivolous lawsuit to demonstrate the supposed ridiculousness of our justice system - it shouldn't be too hard!
>lawsuit to demonstrate the supposed
>ridiculousness of our justice system - it
>shouldn't be too hard!
Whoa. Didn't mean to set that off! Thank you for setting the record straight. Despite the case's merits, you must admit that it is often showcased as the posterboy for America's frivolity, whether correctly regarded as such or not.
Will anyone else be offended if I refer to the lawsuits against fast food chains, alleging they are to blame for people's obesity? Come on people - when does it end?
>case's merits, you must admit that it is often
>showcased as the posterboy for America's
>frivolity, whether correctly regarded as such or
>not.
I know it is - that's why it's so frustrating.
>Will anyone else be offended if I refer to the
>lawsuits against fast food chains, alleging they
>are to blame for people's obesity? Come on
>people - when does it end?
Well except those cases were dismissed, which is an indication that our justice system works, not that it's broken. It was the litigants in that case who were effed up, not the system. So as an example of frivolity, yeah, it works. As an example of why people should laugh at our justice system, not so much (IMHO).
>harassment and mental anguish."
Defendants should also sue for all their legal fees in addition to their pain, suffering & loss of business. According to today's paper, the guy suing is a sitting judge making over $100,000 per year. The money is there if the dry cleaner decides to counter sue. There is also talk of disbarring this creep & removing him from the bench.
On the upside, many people out there are letting him know how they feel so now he will be on the end of it for awhile.
This guy make Mike Nifong look like a judicial superstar.
What I find most amusing is when they talk about how much the media is talking about it.