FIGHTING BACK - YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO: STELLA LIEBECK AND THE McDONALD'S HOT COFFEE CASE
Published: May 8, 2026
Duration: 18:39
A 79-year-old grandmother. Third-degree burns across 16 percent of her body. Eight days in the hospital. And a corporation that spent millions making her the punchline.
Garret Fisher takes on one of the most successfully distorted stories in American legal history: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants. Almost everything the public thinks it knows about this case is wrong — and that's not an accident. McDonald's coffee in 1992 was served 30 to 40 degrees hotter than any competitor, hot enough to cause third-degree burns in under three seconds. The company had received more than 700 burn complaints. Stella Liebeck as...
Garret Fisher takes on one of the most successfully distorted stories in American legal history: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants. Almost everything the public thinks it knows about this case is wrong — and that's not an accident. McDonald's coffee in 1992 was served 30 to 40 degrees hotter than any competitor, hot enough to cause third-degree burns in under three seconds. The company had received more than 700 burn complaints. Stella Liebeck as...