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Wait for it though.

The coffee was not “regular coffee hot”, it was near boiling

It gave the woman who filed the suit third-degree burns and sent her to the ICU where she nearly died

There had already been numerous complaints (over 700) of the coffee’s overly hot temperature burning, scarring, and disfiguring customers

McDonald’s was aware of the dangers of the scalding hot coffee but continue serving it for the sake of profits (it was their policy at the time to intentionally keep the coffee that hot to save money on refills, because by the time the coffee cooled down people would’ve already left the restaurant)

Initially the woman who was burned only wanted enough money to cover her medical expenses, because again, her injuries took her to the ICU and almost killed her

McDonald’s refused to pay these expenses so she took them to court

The 2.9 million was based on the fact that that was how much McDonald’s made from just one day of selling their intentionally scalding hot coffee. Also the woman herself did not ask for this much, it was the jury who decided she deserved a lot more than she actually asked for because of the reckless negligence of McDonald’s

Even though she won the case, at the end of the day she only got 600k in damages

The idea that her lawsuit was “frivolous“ is pure propaganda pushed by corporations and insurance companies to discourage people from filing lawsuits and holding them accountable for their behavior

Such is the case with many so-called “frivolous” lawsuits if you actually look into them

The law in Oklahoma is weird and backwards, but it doesn’t say miscarriages are illegal.

What it does say, interestingly, is that preborn children are people who can be victims of homicide, but OK also has legal abortion.

Under Oklahoma law, if your baby dies from legal abortion or as the result of normal medical testing or medical care (such as amniocentesis, a process used to test for disabilities that carries a risk of miscarriage), you’re fine.

However, the law says that if you commit a crime, and your baby dies as a result of that crime, you are responsible for the death of your baby.

This woman, Brittney Poolaw, had a miscarriage after taking meth, and an autopsy of her baby tested positive for the drugs she took.

So she’s being charged not for having the miscarriage, but for potentially causing the miscarriage through illegal drug use.

Now, I’m not a fan of how this law is set up, because it doesn’t actually protect babies and only penalizes mothers, in this case a mother who probably has an addiction problem and needs treatment, not jail.

The solution here should be to change how Oklahoma approaches drug use. There’s also the problem that the prosecution didn’t actually prove that the drug use caused the miscarriage, because the baby had other health and genetic issues. So that should be grounds for appeal.

This is a symptom of the drug war, not pro-life policies.

>Be John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

>Sign up to fight in WWI and come back as a man changed and haunted by war

>Write a Fantasy series based loosely on your Christian Beliefs, Your Experiences in the War, and your raging boner for language that’s so fucking good and in-depth that it codified the Fantasy Genre TO THIS DAY

>Write a scathing letter to the Nazis that you WISH that you were Jewish and that their ideology of Racial Superiority is Morally repugnant when they contact you to proclaim you an “Honorary Aryan”

>Borrow from various myths and legends all around the world, and create Orcs based on a quirk of language that goes all the way back to fucking BEOWULF.

>Characterize them all as evil servants of a Dark Sorcerer based on your experiences fighting German Infantry, who were very much NOT Black people

>Decades after your death, Mediocre Fake Nerd White Men who want to play White Savior declare you a racist for this, and use the characterization of Orcs as Primitive, Savage, Crude and Murderous as a sign that what you secretly intended them to be a metaphor for Black people.

>This despite the aforementioned hatred of racism being common knowledge

>This despite many, MANY people pointing out how drawing such a conclusion on a completely fictional race of typically tusked, green-skinned, pig-nosed monsters is actually pretty fucking racist because you’re saying that Black people are all Violent Savages 

>Woke Mediocre Fake Nerd White Men ignore this and keep trying to rewrite history in an even more egregious version than what happened to Lovecraft (Since you were never racist to begin with), all to shill their subpar products or otherwise fish for clout