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Based on the actual case, it paints a very different picture, both of the extent of the injuries, the negligence of the defendent, and the damages awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s the Trial Lawyer Assoc. posting this, but the facts are the facts.  Just remember that the next time someone starts bitching on this subject (and that the whole reason why punitive damages were originally allowed was to punish folks\/firms for whom compensatory damages were being just written off as a cost of doing business).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonald&#8217;s Scalding Coffee Case So we&#8217;ve all heard about ridiculous lawsuits and how our country is being ground into the dust by folks refusing to take responsibility for their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[722,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6749,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/half_caf_double.html","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":0},"title":"Half-caf-double-caf with a twist &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Jan-05 10:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"The layman's guide to Starbucks drinks (and a FAQ about other matters), straight from the unauthorized barista's mouth: Starbucks coffee tastes like crap! 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