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

[B.]

Man, this looks like the kind of email my
O'Reilly-watching family would send around. Whenever I
see these kinds of attacks that focus on how folks
have supposedly made bank through "frivolous
lawsuits," i just see a deeper right-wing disdain for
corporate accountability at work.

And like others have said, as far as I'm aware there
really was some serious merit behind the woman who
spilled the boiling coffee on her groin. But here in
Texas, for example, a couple of years ago an
initiative was passed that limited how much juries
could award victims of corporate negligence. I thought
it was outrageous, as I thought juries ought not to be
prohibited that way. Seems like they should have final
say. The right loved the new law.

-B.

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>> Stella Awards It's time once again to review the
winners of the Annual 
>> "Stella Awards." 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.