I wish people knew the real details of this incident.
When I first heard about it when when the case originally happened, I was like most people: 
But that response was based on the shallow, misleading, and sensationalistic reporting that made it seem like the world's gone crazy because here we are awarding some klutzy woman a huge cash settlement for spilling coffee on herself.
As you say, the woman suffered third degree burns; that's the real right there. And if I recall correctly, there was also a history of complaints about the coffee being extremely hot from other customers and the management chose to do nothing about it.
Both the severity of the burns and the history of complaint with no action from management is what resulted in the successful lawsuit.
But never let facts get in the way of a good right-wing meme.
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