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May 11, 2014 03:52 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YgiTkHVt1YU/mcdonalds-hot-coffee-lawsuit.html
McDonald's Hot Coffee lawsuit: deliberate, corporatist urbanlegend
Remember the old lady who sued McDonald's for millions because she burned herself by spilling hot coffee in her lap? It never happened. What actually happened was much more sordid, and the deliberate distortion of the story -- which is ultimately about a company that caused repeated, horrific and preventable injury to its customers -- is a tidy story about how corporations have convinced us that they are victims of out-of-control tort lawyers. Read the rest
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