prostitute review site sues blogger!!??!

[JoeyT]

3. The McDonald's coffee case is a bad example.

Most of the "facts" people know about it came from right wingers lying about the case in the hopes of pushing tort reform laws that would prevent anyone from suing any corporation for any reason. She didn't get 12 million, she initially wanted McDonald's to cover her hospital bills for the skin grafts, which they refused to do, so she sued and was awarded money to cover her medical bills. Skin grafts are pretty expensive, but the award was nowhere near 12 million.

You can see information about the case (And her burns, if you have a strong stomach) here: http://pratlaw.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/an-old-posting-i-always-wanted-to-have-referenced/

McDonald's knew serving the coffee that hot was causing burns that bad because it had *already happened to a whole bunch of other people*.

Regarding the poor blogger: He's about to discover the first amendment does not guarantee you anonymity or the freedom to defame. And now you know why the EFF and ACLU aren't involved.

Edited to add: Good luck to the creeps that run that site proving his/her allegations were untrue without revealing their own identities, though.