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Stella Liebeck was awarded 2.7 million in punitive damages, that seems like a much more reasonable number than 1.4 billion.
by some_random 6mo ago
Stella Liebeck was awarded 2.7 million in punitive damages, that seems like a much more reasonable number than 1.4 billion.
- wredcoll 6mo agoIt was considerably less on appeal and the mcdonalds lawyers didn't anatagonize the court every chance they got and it was literally 30 years ago and there was only one victim. Just with inflation (6.4m) and number of victims (22?) you get a much larger number real quick.
- some_random 6mo ago6.4m * 22 = 140.8m, an entire order of magnitude less.
- wredcoll 6mo agoSure, and the mcdonalds case was a famously low penalty amount.