[lbo-talk] It pays to be stupid in America

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 06:55:09 PST 2006


On 2/10/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


> > The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella
> > Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued
> > McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella awards for the most
> > frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.

Despite the fact that Stella's case was neither frivolous nor ridiculous, and in fact wasn't nearly as successful as has been reported.

Anyway, the whole email is bogus:

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp



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