McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel Essays

narratives, as opposed to a Bayesian form of decision making, or probabilities and likelihoods (O'Brien, 1). Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old department store clerk, in March of 1993 filed a lawsuit, commonly known as the “McDonalds Coffee Case,” against McDonald's Corporation. The Plaintiff argued that the coffee she purchased on February 2, 1992 was unreasonably dangerous and the defendant should be liable for the physical and mental harm it caused her at the time of sale (Dedman, 1). The Plaintiff claimed