Hot Coffee

Hot Coffee Is A TORT, so tort reform = let the scalding coffee run down my legs
May I request that if you do not agree with the legal DECISIONS in this documentary, please do not post essay-length refutations of the cases. I'm not an attorney, I'm a film critic, and can barely tolerate doing that anymore. Write your own review! Leave me in peace!

HOT COFFEE (dir. Susan Saladoff, 2011, 85 minutes) is an HBO documentary that is Oscar-worthy and should be bought/shown in every school, town council meeting ... I can't think of enough places. Never have I seen a documentary that taught me so much in so little time. And what I learned is just how badly the rights of American citizens have been damaged, how horribly corrupt our judicial and legislative branches have become.

This is a documentary about tort reform. If you are like nearly 100% of America, you'll be asking what that is. I will tell you without spoiling the documentary - you WILL want to see this for yourself.

Presenting itself in a tightly organized, well developed set of...

A Real David Versus Goliath Story--The Continued Intrusion Of Private Sector Interests Into The American Judicial System
I always consider myself somewhat of a jaded individual. Not much surprises me anymore when it comes to almost any topic especially as it relates to government and/or big business. I, like many I'm sure, remember the notorious case where a woman sued McDonalds after being scalded by their hot coffee. It became a national punchline and represented, to me, everything that was wrong with the contemporary legal system. Someone sued because their coffee was hot! How ridiculous! In hindsight, after viewing Susan Saladoff's incendiary and eye-opening documentary "Hot Coffee," I may have to admit that I wasn't in possession of all the facts. And that's just the way special interest groups wanted it! In four distinct sections, Saladoff's film takes on different cases (starting with the infamous Hot Coffee incident) that have led the justice system to favor corporate interests over that of the common citizen.

Section One is the infamous Hot Coffee case. Branded a frivolous...

TORT - MEANS HARM - When a TORT is committed - someone has been harmed in some way..
Essential information is revealed here within this powerful documentary.
Here is the detailed unveiling of corporate multi-million-dollar propaganda campaigns,
intentionally ment to confuse and brainwash Americans.

Photo's are shown here of the deep burns Stella Liebeck suffered in the McDonald's hot coffee incident.
She was 79 at the time, she required numerous skin graphs and nearly died.
But the industry twisted the case to make it the poster child for frivolous lawsuits.
Meanwhile McDonald's kept a low profile on the fact that they previously had,
between January 1983 to March 1992, over 700 burn cases.

Corporations have armed themselves with these tactics,
plus powerful unrelenting lobbing, and friends in high places.
They have extensively campaigned to affect jury's and senator's to set cap's on damage awards.
And in addition they have among other things,
actually managed to change a CRUCIAL part of our 200...

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