Check out this article on the Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants spilled coffee lawsuit as an interesting example of negligence: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1294
I'm really surprised how heated the class became when discussing this case on Friday. I do agree that the women who spilt the coffee should have some degree of fault, but I also think McDonalds should be more at fault than what the class was thinking. I think of the keys to assigning fault here is that the women had THIRD degree burns. That's insane...no body should be selling coffee that hot.
anyways, I'm saying McDonalds is solely had fault, but I just wanted to play devil's advocate without getting ridiculed in class. :)
Speaking as international student, I can tell you that this case got a lot of media coverage all over the world.
ReplyDeleteLet's discuss this case in class. There are additional facts in this case that were not discussed in the media.
ReplyDeleteI'm really surprised how heated the class became when discussing this case on Friday. I do agree that the women who spilt the coffee should have some degree of fault, but I also think McDonalds should be more at fault than what the class was thinking. I think of the keys to assigning fault here is that the women had THIRD degree burns. That's insane...no body should be selling coffee that hot.
ReplyDeleteanyways, I'm saying McDonalds is solely had fault, but I just wanted to play devil's advocate without getting ridiculed in class. :)
i'm not saying mcdonalds should be solely at fault** sorry, typo!
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