the craziest lawsuit

[conception_native_0123]

What a lot of people get wrong about the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit

Adam Ruins Everything explains that the case wasn’t about greed, but about a working-class woman forcing a big company to make its product safer.

www.vox.com

Adam says in the video that it took stella's case to reduce the tempature of coffee served but wiki says that the coffee's temp still hasn't been reduced.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Look at it this way. If they make the cups sturdier, then you have less (still not zero) chance of repetition, and your coffee is sterilized. (All it takes is 168 degr. F to reach that point.)

 

[Isaac]

What a lot of people get wrong about the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit

Adam Ruins Everything explains that the case wasn’t about greed, but about a working-class woman forcing a big company to make its product safer.

www.vox.com

Your quoted article said: "forcing a big company to make its product safer"
And Galaxiom said, McDonalds did not change the temperature of their coffee.

A plaintiff whose goal was to force them to make their product safer would have sought equitable relief of some kind, perhaps an injunction.