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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language
Date: 1997/08/18
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Asbjrn said

<<Oh, don't be so sure, remeber, McDonalds got sued because their coffee was
too hot...>>

Always be careful about summarizing legal cases so facilely.

In fact McDonalds was deliberately superheating the coffee to higher than
normal temperatures, and internal memos were alledged to show that they
knew that there might be safety problems.
Furthermore, aand most importantly, a jury was 
convinced that there was indeed a problem of liability.