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Random BedHead Ed writes "LinuxPlanet has an interesting interview with Pamela Jones, the paralegal and blogger who created Groklaw. Groklaw has become an indespensible site for geeks who need even more SCO updates than even /. provides - and if the site's inclusion in the footnotes of one of IBM's court documents is any indication, it's been handy for people involved in the case as well. No wonder the site won Best News Site in O'Reilly's OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards for 2003. It shows how useful and influental a well-run collaborative website can be."
When juries are dumb enough to hand out money in the case of frivolous lawsuits such as suing McDonalds for hot coffee, etc, I dread to think of what is going to happen when frivolous lawsuits such as SCO's become commonplace. You'll have Mr. Redneck with his pickup trucks and guns deciding if the definitions in a header file were copied from another version of Unix, etc.
Do more reasearch before you start trolling
I did. You did not. You must be trolling.
Mickey D's was serving coffee within 10 degrees F of the temperature at which meat packing plants boil the skin off pigs.
Looks like you have partially researched pigs, but not coffee. The coffee temperature was well short of the boiling point.
McDonalds was doing this for the express purpose of saving a few bucks a week on coffee
No, they were doing it because the customers preferred nice hot coffee. When they were forced to lower the temperature, it is a fact that "cold coffee" complaints soared.
Further, the woman in question required multiple skin grafts and was hospitalized for ten days
Thanks to her OWN ACTION of pouring coffee in her crotch. The coffee was perfectly safe: they sold billions and billions of cups, Mr. Sagan, and had only 700 burn incidents. That's something to think about.
Trial evidence demonstrated that most fast food places did NOT serve coffee that hot
so? Look at the facts. No one had a problem unless they did something stupid with it.
The damages awarded by the jury were ONE DAYS' profits
The damages awared were outrageous, as McDonald's did nothing wrong. Even one cent is excessive.
Now, knowing the facts, flame away.
i knew the facts coming into this. She spilled the coffee, McDonald's did not.
Here's the tactic used by the lawyers to confuse the jury:
Keep pointing out all temperatures in Farenheit, but when you want to make a hyperbolic statement such as "It was X degrees less than what they boil pigs at", use Celsius instead. Saying "10 degrees away from boiling pigs" is way more effective and dumbass juries who mostly wouldn't even have a high school education do not know the difference between celsius and farenheit.. and even if they did, they would lack the maths skills to interpret that information.
Almost every lawsuit is a variation thereof and winning requires nothing more than exploiting the unbelievable dumbness of the jury