Re: bad judgements

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 16:51:42 MDT


--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
<snip>

> So they (MacDonalds) had to pay out a couple million
> dollars in damages, perhaps as much in legal fees,
<snip>

For the sake of accuracy:

Original award: $160,000 compensatory, $2.7 Mil
punitive (two days of coffee sales for MacD @ 1.35 mil
per day).

Then the judge reduce the punative damages to $480,000
(three times the compensatory damages).

Then they both appealed.

But before the appeals court got a shot at it, they
settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

Best, Jeff Davis

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who
said it--no matter if I have said it--unless it agrees
with your own reason and your common sense."
                         Buddha

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