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Spilled Decaf Costs Starbucks A Lot Of Beans (goodbye hot coffee!)
WCBS TV ^ | 8/16/2006

Posted on 08/16/2006 11:49:35 AM PDT by markomalley

A Manhattan lawyer won $310,000 from Starbucks because of a cup of hot decaf spilled on her foot. The jury's verdict was handed down in April and upheld yesterday by State Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman.

The 42-year-old attorney, Alice Grifffin, says she bought a large decaf on February 10, 2004 from a Starbucks on Seventh Avenue. She says the clerk did not put an insulating sleeve on the cup, and slid the coffee on the counter so it fell on her foot.

Griffin testified the hot coffee scalded her toes leaving her with nerve damage to her foot.

Starbucks says it regrets her pain, but it says the company will appeal the jury verdict if a better settlement can't be reached.


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: ambulancechaser; lawsuit; starbucks
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To: Xenalyte

Hooter's girls do.
Maybe she has a side job.


21 posted on 08/16/2006 1:02:36 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (You can do that, and be a whack-job pedophile on meth.)
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To: Darth Reagan

ping


22 posted on 08/16/2006 1:09:59 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: Maximus of Texas

site work


be back soon


23 posted on 08/16/2006 1:19:21 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott

Me Tarzan. You Jane. Touch my monkey?


24 posted on 08/16/2006 1:29:27 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger.)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Sure. I love monkeys. They so cute.


25 posted on 08/16/2006 1:42:54 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: markomalley

I have to admit I buy a Starbuck Caramel Machiatto from time to time..........hmmm, matter of fact I bought one last week and it was "tepid" at best....could this be the reason??


26 posted on 08/16/2006 1:45:27 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: markomalley
Message to Starbuck's...don't sell coffee to lawyers any more.
27 posted on 08/16/2006 2:14:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Xenalyte
Here's where I call BS. No one wears socks AND stockings.

You don't get to Manhattan much,do you?

28 posted on 08/16/2006 2:15:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative

Only the once.


29 posted on 08/16/2006 2:19:25 PM PDT by Xenalyte ("Snakes on a Plane" will win best movie next year.)
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To: markomalley

That's worth $310,000 /rolling eyes


30 posted on 08/16/2006 2:20:46 PM PDT by Vision (God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
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To: Xenalyte
Only the once.

Trust me..whether you're talking about costumes or anything else,Manhattan is a whole 'nother world.

31 posted on 08/16/2006 2:22:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: MarineBrat

Very interesting post. I hadn't heard any of that - it does alter my previous, & admittedly shallow, assessment of that case - definitely.


32 posted on 08/16/2006 2:42:52 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Xenalyte

actually I've seen a lot of women wearing hose, socks and tennis shoes to be comfy before they get to and after they leave the office..seems to me though the shoes would have protected her foot to some degree..


33 posted on 08/16/2006 2:51:36 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
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