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Originally posted by Firestormalpha:
It's a repeat of the McDonald's case if you ask me.
For those of you who don't know about it. Woman spills coffee on herself gets burned and sues McDonald's for injury and not adequately labeling their coffee cups with caution hot!
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FSA, I felt the same way until I spoke with my sister-in-law about this (she's a lawyer, and also felt the same way to begin with).
The problem with the McDonald's coffee was that they were heating their coffee (a food product) to a level that was considered to be unsafe for consumption... and not just by a few degrees either, mind you. I believe that the temparature was not too far below the boiling point, and that's ridicultous. So the lawsuit wasn't to fight the fact that this McDonald's was serving hot coffee, but rather that they were serving their coffee at tempratures that were deemed to be well beyond unsafe. The government believed that McDonald's should either lower their coffee tempreratures, or begin labeling their products. Unfortunately, the effect just snowballed from there.