Sample Paper on Tort Law (pdf)

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Sample Paper on Tort Law (pdf)

Added on 2021-06-18

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TORT LAW1Parties to the court Stella Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, 1994 ExtraLEXIS23 (Bernalillo County,N.M. Dist. Ct.1994), 1995WL360309 (Bernalillo County,N.M. Dist. Ct.1994).Facts of the caseIn this case, Lieback dropped McDonald’s cup of coffee in her lap. It caused thirddegree burn to her legs (Howells, & Weatherill, 2017). Liebeck made a request toMcDonald’s restaurant to pay medical expenses but McDonald’s refused to pay. On therefusal, Liebeck filed a lawsuit in court. During the proceedings, it was found that there werenumber of grievances against McDonalds that coffee had caused burns to customers. Though, temperature of coffee is specified in restaurant’s operational manual. Thepanel of judges granted Liebeck compensatory damages of $200000 and punitive charges of$ 2.7 million. McDonalds tried to settle the matter with Liebeck but Liebeck did not agree tosettle. In due course, judge reduced the amount by $ 640000 and at last case was appealed byMcDonalds. Specific DisagreementIn the given case, there was specific disagreement between the parties. Liebecksuspected that coffee was prepared badly due to heat and served in cup which was designeddefectively. Furthermore Liebeck said that cup had no warning regarding caution.McDonalds denied these facts in some of its pleading that potable coffee is of hot nature andall other restaurant serve excessively hot coffee. Further McDonalds argued that every yearbillion cups of coffee have been consumed and no incident happened in this regard. And

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Sample Paper on Tort Law (pdf)