Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Andreas Barth wrote: > In this case she did "swim" in it, see also > http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm (which describes that case > IMHO much better). Thanks for the link. That should remind me to check anectdotes out slightly more carefully. Don Armstrong -- Sentence

Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030920 21:50]: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Joe Drew wrote: > > Contrary to popular belief, the McDonald's coffee case was not > > frivolous. > > > > http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/MB_mcdonalds.htm > First off, hot coffee causes 2nd degree burns, not

Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First off, hot coffee causes 2nd degree burns, not 3rd degree > burns.[1] Ordinary temperature coffee does indeed cause 2nd degree burns. This is not true however for coffee served at 180 degrees Farenheit. > Secondly, the punitive award by the jury o

Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
Whoa. Digging around in the archives are we? On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Joe Drew wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: >>1: Of course, you do hear about rather rediculous [sic] judgements >>from time to time. That's because there are quite a few moronic lower >>court judges out there. Most of those settlements

[OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Joe Drew
Don Armstrong wrote: 1: Of course, you do hear about rather rediculous [sic] judgements from time to time. That's because there are quite a few moronic lower court judges out there. Most of those settlements (the Mc-D's coffee one for instance) are often overturned or reduced in the appeals proce