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Liebeck V. Mcdonald's. Restaurants
1. Describe the company and the product safety issue that led to the lawsuit The name of this case in this report is the Liebeck v. McDonald's. Restaurants and the court in which the lawsuit was filed was The Second Judicial District Court in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The lawsuit was filed with the original complaint was filed on March 21, 1993, and the plaintiff only sued P.T.S., Inc., a New Mexico corporation and the local franchise operator. “McDonald’s coffee spill" tort case became a widely known court case in the United States and internationally. When this case appeared on the news it was it brought a lot of attention and made a mockery of by radio talk-show hosts, television and newspaper editors around the world and throughout the United States in a case where a 79 year old women spilling hot McDonald's coffee on herself while in a car as a result of it is she than sued McDonald's receiving a cool 2.9 million dollars from a jury that showed sympathy in the situation. The first McDonald's restaurant opened in San Bernardino, California by Richard and Maurice McDonald in 1948 and since then McDonald has become the world's leading food service organization generating more than $40 billion in system wide sale and operating over thirty thousand restaurants in more than one hundred countries on six continents. The Liebeck case became a story widely known to considerate number of law suits that were meaningless, quarrelsome plaintiffs and juries that were out of control in the U S. In fueling "tort reform “ it was used as a major weapon in the United States, and in foreign countries in opposing or favoring legal changes leading to or avoid, respectively, the excesses and dysfunction of the United States' tort litigation system. In the decision of this case of the United States 1994 election campaigns "tort reform" there was a large platform in the Republican Party's support and "Contract with America." Advocates in this case regularly and constantly

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