2) Facts Of Case The Trial Stella Lieback vs McDonalds started on February 27, 1992. Stella Liebeck was a 79 year old woman who drove to McDonald's one day with her grandson to order a coffee. When they parked the car so that she can add sugar and creamer she place the beverage in between her thighs to hold in place the drink. When she opened the lid she accidently spilled the entire cup of hot coffee all over her lower area which lead to her obtaining third degree burns. This resulted in her having to participate in a skin grafts as well as being hospitalized for 8 days all while losing 20 pounds, partially disable for two years, and a hospital bill of around $18,000. 3) Issues One main reason why Ms Lieback sued McDonald's was because when she was burned from the coffee which was insanely to hot for human consumption she originally requested that McDonald's would pay for her $20,000 medical expenses which was only a small fraction of the overall outcome, they refused and only offered to pay her no more than $800. Another reason they had was when Stella Liebeck's lawyer argued that the temperature of the coffee was at 180 Fahrenheit and should …show more content…
A similar case was the case of McMahon v. Bunn Matic Corporation when a similar claim that the coffee was too hot seeing as it was 179 fahrenheit and could of done serious harm to someone if an accident would of occured. What is showed about the court and its members is that they were quick to side with Liebeck and offered her a lot more than even she wanted. The impact I think it has on society is that people are more leaning to sympathize to another rather than they are on corporations seeing as corporations only really see them as numbers on a