Stella Award

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The Stella Awards are named after a woman named Stella Liebeck who, in 1992, spilled a cup of McDonalds' coffee onto her lap, burning herself. She sued McDonalds and was awarded $2.9 million in damages, subsequently reduced by the judge to $640,000. The Stella Award is given to people who have what the originators consider to be outrageous lawsuits. [1]

The awards are the subject of a 2005 book, The True Stella Awards: Honoring real cases of greedy opportunists, frivolous lawsuits, and the law run amok.

There are a number of "bogus" Stella Awards circulating on the internet.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Stella Awards Official Site
  2. ^ http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html Fake Stella Awards
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