Originally posted by: Marvolo
He did put the pictures up on Facebook. Someone else grabbed the pictures and uploaded them elsewhere, and one person went as far as to type the entire book out. Also, I know that that whole joint experiment defense probably wouldn't work, but considering that someone can sue McDonalds for making them fat and a number of other stupid things that happen in America's court system I wouldn't be surprised if a defense like that passed as acceptable.
He did put the pictures up on Facebook. Someone else grabbed the pictures and uploaded them elsewhere, and one person went as far as to type the entire book out. Also, I know that that whole joint experiment defense probably wouldn't work, but considering that someone can sue McDonalds for making them fat and a number of other stupid things that happen in America's court system I wouldn't be surprised if a defense like that passed as acceptable.
That lawsuit you keep mentioning never went through. The judge dismissed it.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/22/news/companies/mcdonalds/index.htm
The reason the hot coffee lawsuit was successful was because McDonald's had been warned several times that there coffee was to hot (scalding hot) and they'd had several other people file complaints against them before that incident. I still think it was a wasteful lawsuit, but there is a back story that makes it make more sense.