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Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition
Crippling Bigness
As a new Retro Report revisits the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit, James Poulos looks at the lesson we didn’t learn.
James Poulos
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Oct. 21 2013
5:45AM EDT
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