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	McDonald's coffee case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin as she sat in the puddle of hot liquid for over ninety seconds.
		Liebeck was taken to the hospital, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns over six percent of her skin.
		Both McDonald's and Liebeck appealed, and in December 1994, the two came to a confidential settlement, the amount of which is secret, but is believed to be approximately equal to the amount of the final judgment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stella_Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Corporation (918 words)

	Stella Liebeck v. McDonald's Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liebeck was wearing sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin.
		Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her medical costs, but the companyoffered $800.
		The jury found that McDonald's was 80% responsible for the incident, while Liebeck was20% at fault.
	www.therfcc.org /stella-liebeck-v.-mcdonald's-corporation-5922.html (608 words)

	The McDonald's Coffee Case: The Whole Story
		Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in the passenger seat of her grandson's car when she was severely burned by McDonald's coffee in February 1992.
		Liebeck placed the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the cup.
		Liebeck was 20 percent at fault in the spill.
	www.mastschulz.com /CM/Articles/Articles12.asp (752 words)

	McDonald's coffee case
		The brief summary that is often retold is similar to this: In February, 1992, Liebeck, a 79 year old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered coffee from the drive-thru of a local McDonald's restaurant, which she then spilled on her lap.
		The person driving the vehicle was Liebeck's grandson Chris, who had parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee.
		Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her medical costs, but the company offered $800.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mc/mcdonald_s_coffee_case.html (695 words)

	law.com - One Lump or Two?
		Liebeck, then 79 years old, had placed a cup between her legs while sitting in a parked car, but tugged too hard and splashed coffee into her lap.
		Liebeck squirmed in a bucket seat while the approximately 170-degree beverage seared her skin.
		Liebeck spent a week in the hospital, then returned a month later for skin grafts to heal the second- and third-degree burns across her buttocks, thighs, and labia.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1085626349093 (1234 words)

	PointofLaw.com \| PointOfLaw Forum: McDonald's coffee revisited
		Liebeck's injuries were so terrible was because she was wearing a sweatsuit that absorbed the hot liquid and held it close to her skin.
		Liebeck's sweatpants had been made out of Gore-Tex or some other liquid-resistant material, she never would have been hurt.
		Liebeck were wearing Gore-Tex instead of sweatpants, she wouldn't have been injured by the coffee.
	www.pointoflaw.com /archives/000152.php (1124 words)

	The Actual Facts about the Mcdonalds' Coffee Case
		Liebeck, 79 at the time, ordered coffee that was served in a styrofoam cup at the drivethrough window of a local McDonalds.
		(Critics of civil justice, who have pounced on this case, often charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.) Liebeck placed the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the cup.
		The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/cur78.htm (907 words)

	The Coffee Spill Heard Round the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stella Liebeck and her grandson Chris Tiano drove her son, Jim, to the airport 60 miles away in Albuquerque.
		Stella, a spry 79-year-old retired department store clerk ordered a McBreaktast and Chris parked the car so she could add cream and sugar to her coffee.
		She went on to insist that Liebeck had only herself to blame as she was unwise to put the cup between her knees.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /pagana/mg312/coffee.html (1207 words)

	SYLLABUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stella Liebeck purchased the coffee at a drive-through near her home and suffered third-degree burns after fumbling with a Styrofoam cup and spilling the contents in her lap.
		While Liebeck got far less from the settlement than the millions she had been awarded, we must imagine that few citizens were attentive enough to the news to learn that her award had shrunk by perhaps an order of magnitude.
		Stella’s case has persisted as an object lesson against frivolous lawsuits and as a legal legend despite efforts to debunk errant reports of the case, despite the severe "down-sizing" of damages, and despite efforts of many restaurants to reduce the temperature of coffee and especially hot chocolate.
	www.ups.edu /arches/archive/syllabusHot_Java.htm (1561 words)

	Jackson & Wilson- Experienced and Top Rated Attorneys and Lawyers- Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Legal Consulting, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stella suffered 3rd-degree burns over 6% of her body, including her inner thighs, genitals, and buttocks.
		Critics of civil justice often charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.
		Liebeck suffered burns on her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas.
	www.jacksonwilson.com /articles/article_mcdonaldsfacts.htm (1234 words)

	McDonalds Lawsuit \| McDonalds Hot Coffee Lawsuit
		Liebeck's seven days in the hospital and her skin grafts, and shown gruesome photographs, jurors began taking the matter more seriously.
		Liebeck's age may have caused her injuries to have been worse than they might have been in a younger individual," since older skin is thinner and more vulnerable to injury.
		Liebeck argued that lowering the serving temperature to about 160 degrees could make a big difference, because it takes less than three seconds to produce a third-degree burn at 190 degrees, about 12 to 15 seconds at 180 degrees and about 20 seconds at 160 degrees.
	www.vanfirm.com /mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit.htm (2004 words)

	Zurich Financial Services - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liebeck spilled coffee on herself and how much she was finally awarded circulate on the Internet.
		Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee at a drive-through window of a McDonald's in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
		Liebeck removed the lid, her grandson stopped abruptly and the boiling hot coffee spilled into her lap.
	www.zurich.com /main/productsandsolutions/industryinsight/2004/march2004/industryinsight20040318_005.htm (1226 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Frivolous lawsuit awards thread?
		Stella Awards refers to the case that Stella brought about, and that's pretty much what Stella L is known for, whereas Rosa Parks was a central figure in the fight against segregation.
		Stella: "I don't want you to use my name, which is known nationwide because I brought what many consider to be a frivolous lawsuit against a major company and asked for millions of dollars, to name your list/website which discusses what many consider to be frivolous lawsuits asking for millions of dollars."
		Stella did, in essence, become a public figure because of the lawsuit--I never heard of her before that, but I sure heard of Rosa Parks before Outkast.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=334516 (2957 words)

	The Stella Awards? - BreakTheChain.org
		In February 1992, Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was severely burned after spilling hot McDonald's Coffee on her lap.
		Instead, the court awarded her $160,000 compensatory damages (reduced from $200,000 because they found Liebeck to be 20% at-fault) and $480,000 in punitive damages.
		The "Stella Awards" is an informal moniker that has since been applied to any frivolous lawsuit (much as the term "Darwin Awards" came to be applied to any story of a death from less-than-responsible behavior).
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/lawsuits.html (841 words)

	Corp Reform - Not Tort Reform: In-Depth Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old grandmother, was the passenger in her grandson’s vehicle and ordered a cup of McDonald’s coffee.
		Stella spilled the coffee on the crotch of her cotton jogging pants, and the coffee immediately soaked through her pants and caused third-degree burns to her legs, thighs, and genitals.
		Stella offered to settle the case with McDonald’s if they would just pay her medical bills, which were into the many thousands of dollars.
	corpreform.typepad.com /corpreform/indepth_articles (5744 words)

	[No title]
		Liebeck suffered were mentioned in the headline (enumerated as 0) and in the first and second sentences and the sixteenth and seventeenth sentences of the AM cycle of the Associated Press; the nature of the awards meted out by the jury to Ms.
		Liebeck were mentioned in both the headline and in the first, third, fourth, and eighteenth sentence of the AP wire-story.
		Liebeck had first asked McDonald’s merely to redress the high temeratures at which it brewed and held coffee and later had asked for $20,000 to cover medical bills and the time her daughter took off to nurse Ms.
	www.lawslore.info /child_25.html (2332 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, consulting with the redoubtable `www.snopes.com' we find http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/lawsuits.htm As for the Stella Liebeck item itself, it is instructive to mention that she did suffer third-degree burns.
		The whole story behind the Liebeck award is that McDonald's knew from numerous previous complaints that the coffee was being dispensed at an unsafe temperature and that they refused to act to ensure the safety of their customers.
		Liebeck was partially at fault, and $2.7 million punitive damages.
	www.citi.umich.edu /u/marius/amer-2 (498 words)

	McDonald's Hot Coffee Case, McDonalds Lawsuit Verdict - HURT911
		Stella Liebeck, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was a passenger in a car when she was severely burned by McDonald's coffee in February 1992.
		Liebeck, 79 at the time, ordered coffee that was served in a styrofoam cup at the drive through window of a McDonald's.
		Critics of civil justice, often imply that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in motion when she spilled the coffee, however, NEITHER IS TRUE.
	hurt911.org /mcdonalds.html (1376 words)

	Public Citizen \| Congress Watch \| Congress Watch - Legal Myths: The McDonald's "Hot Coffee" Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liebeck placed the cup between her legs and removed the lid to add cream and sugar when the hot coffee spilled out on her lap causing third-degree burns on her groin, inner thighs and buttocks.
		Liebeck $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages and, in an instant, the media and legal communities were up in arms.
		Liebeck suffered $200,000 in compensatory damages for her medical costs and disability.
	www.citizen.org /congress/civjus/tort/myths/articles.cfm?ID=785 (1086 words)

	Overlawyered: Stella Liebeck and McDonald's coffee revisited II
		Overlawyered: Stella Liebeck and McDonald's coffee revisited II Overlawyered
		Stella Liebeck and McDonald's coffee revisited II More discussion of the McDonald's coffee case, the blogosphere discussion of it, and why it's relevant today on our sister blog, Point of Law (Aug.
		3) makes the oft-heard argument that it was alright for Stella Liebeck to sue McDonald's for millions because she first tried to settle for her medical expenses.
	www.overlawyered.com /archives/001397.html (766 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Stella awards get their name from an old woman named Stella Liebeck.
		Stella argued that the coffee was too hot.
		The court ruled in favor of Stella Liebeck and ordered McDonald’s to pay her $2.9 million dollars.
	bogglesworld.com /graded_reading_materials/two_law_cases.doc (395 words)

	Stella Awards -- The "Real" Stella
		Stella was burned badly (some sources say six percent of her skin was burned, other sources say 16 percent was) and needed two years of treatment and rehabilitation, including skin grafts.
		While Stella was awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages, this amount was reduced by 20 percent (to $160,000) because the jury found her 20 percent at fault.
		Even in the eyes of an obviously sympathetic jury, Stella was judged to be 20 percent at fault -- she did, after all, spill the coffee into her lap all by herself.
	www.stellaawards.com /stella.html (886 words)

	FootnoteTV® : Seinfeld
		First of all, Stella Liebeck's claim was never that she didn't know that coffee was supposed to be hot, but that McDonald's should have sold its coffee in a safer but still marketable way and thus avoided about 70 severe burn injuries a year, including hers.
		Liebeck did not start off looking for a lawsuit, but simply wrote McDonald's a letter asking it to reduce the coffee temperature and for $20,000 to cover her medical costs and the time her daughter missed from work.
		The question is very debatable and there are good reasons on both sides, and Liebeck apparently did put on enough evidence that the jury was entitled to weigh this question for itself (other plaintiffs have simply tried to say that the coffee was too hot, and their cases have gotten thrown out before trial).
	www.newsaic.com /ftvseinfeldindex.html (2784 words)

	PointofLaw.com \| PointOfLaw Forum: Why Stella Liebeck is important
		The blogosphere continues to discuss the 1994 Stella Liebeck McDonald's coffee case.
		Beldar suggests Liebeck is an aberration; similarly, "PG" of Blog de Novo (Aug.
		So, yes, let's criticize the jurors who let emotion prevail over reason and common sense, let's criticize the plaintiff who sought to take money from McDonald's to compensate her for her own carelessness, and let's criticize the judge who didn't put a stop to this nonsense before it got to trial.
	www.pointoflaw.com /archives/000402.php (292 words)

	McDonalds - Coffee - Stella Liebeck - Bob Parks - Men's News Daily™
		79-year-old Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico was in the passenger seat of her grandson's car when she was severely burned at McDonalds.
		Liebeck received a cup of coffee that was served in a Styrofoam cup at the drive-through window, and the rest is history.
		A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered “third-degree burns over 6% of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas.” She spent eight days in the hospital, and underwent skin grafting.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/p/parks/02/parks060602.htm (1149 words)

	my weblog » 2003 » January » 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Stellas are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds.
		That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States.
		—Hell, even the real Stella Awards (an entertaining enough read, which focusses out of necessity on suits filed rather than insane amounts rewarded—you go where the material is, after all) admits her treatment has been grossly unfair.
	www.kipmanley.com /longstory/vaults/2003/01/21 (1413 words)

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