Law School for Everyone
Season 1
Ep 48. Punitive Damages and Their Limits
- TV-PG
- September 22, 2017
- 34 min
What are punitive damages? Why do we have them? How can the legal system rein in out-of-control juries? To get answers to these three questions, look to a case that's long been the symbol of a legal system run amok: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, or the case of the spilled hot coffee.