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Nearly 700 people had already been burned by the coffee at McDonald’s when an elderly woman “won the lottery” with 2nd and 3rd degree burns from a 190-degree cup of coffee.
The New York Times revisits the famous lawsuit in this short video about the court case that became a punchline for jokes about injury lawyers and the state of the civil justice system in America.
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