Torts/Personal Injury
Sep. 9, 2020
Hot coffee case, redux
I couldn’t help but be reminded of Stella Liebeck’s “windfall” while reading Shih v. Starbucks Corp., decided last week by the Court of Appeal.
Michael E. Rubinstein
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Michael is a Los Angeles-based personal injury and accident attorney.
On my first day of law school, as my colleagues and I sat around nervously waiting for Real Property to begin, we began discussing "that case." We didn't know much about law or its many components, but we did know that Stella Liebeck had reaped a ridiculous windfall from McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself. Since the 1990s, the media used the case to illustrate how the American tort system had gone off the rails. A few months later, our Torts professor set th...
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