I'm not sure I'd hold out a stub of a story like that as a model of Times reporting. For what it's worth, here's a more in-depth story on coffee temperature fr

I'm not sure I'd hold out a stub of a story like that as a model of Times reporting. For what it's worth, here's a more in-depth story on coffee temperature from a few months later that mentions the case, although it doesn't go into detail on the case itself: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/garden/coffee-tea-or-ouch.html http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/garden/coffee-tea-or-ouch.... On the other hand, this article from 1995 on lawsuits against restaurants, which also mentions it, is quite sympathetic to the restaurants: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/weekinreview/the-nation-hey-waiter-now-there-s-a-lawyer-in-my-soup.html http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/weekinreview/the-nation-he... But not unreasonably so, I think. There are two sides to every story.