Crazy Lawsuits... Or Not? (A2)
Read about two famous court cases and fill the gaps.
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In the USA, people sometimes go to for very strange reasons. When you someone, you ask a to make them pay you money. Here are two famous stories.
In February 1992, Stella Liebeck was 79 years old. She bought a coffee at McDonald's. She was sitting in a parked car, and she tried to open the cup. She the hot coffee on her legs. She had a very bad and spent eight days in hospital. Many people laughed at her story. But her showed that McDonald's coffee was much hotter than other coffee, and about 700 people had complained before. There was a on the cup, but the jury said it was too small. The jury decided it was mostly McDonald's . In the end, the two sides agreed on a secret amount of money.
In 2005, Roy Pearson, a judge in Washington, took his to a small dry cleaner's. The trousers went missing. The shop had a sign: "Satisfaction Guaranteed". He asked for 54 million dollars! In 2007, the court that he got nothing. He also had to pay the shop's court costs.
So, is every crazy lawsuit really crazy? Sometimes the true story is different from the news. And some "crazy" stories on the internet are not true at all!
In February 1992, Stella Liebeck was 79 years old. She bought a coffee at McDonald's. She was sitting in a parked car, and she tried to open the cup. She the hot coffee on her legs. She had a very bad and spent eight days in hospital. Many people laughed at her story. But her showed that McDonald's coffee was much hotter than other coffee, and about 700 people had complained before. There was a on the cup, but the jury said it was too small. The jury decided it was mostly McDonald's . In the end, the two sides agreed on a secret amount of money.
In 2005, Roy Pearson, a judge in Washington, took his to a small dry cleaner's. The trousers went missing. The shop had a sign: "Satisfaction Guaranteed". He asked for 54 million dollars! In 2007, the court that he got nothing. He also had to pay the shop's court costs.
So, is every crazy lawsuit really crazy? Sometimes the true story is different from the news. And some "crazy" stories on the internet are not true at all!