It’s the holiday season. For a lot of people, that means trying to avoid repeating the painful political conversations that took place over Thanksgiving and just surviving the few days they’re trapped, once again, in their childhood bedrooms. Retreat is suggested for times when one of the 40 bowl games aren’t on providing distraction, Wheel of Fortune, The Today Show, or other bland, generic fare calculated to be inoffensive.
If this scenario sounds familiar, allow me to suggest Adam Ruins Everything. For the unfamiliar, the conceit is that host, Adam Conover, takes common misconceptions and blows them up with cold, hard facts. Throughout his explanation, citations appear at the top of the screen and links to the sources are on the website. It’s enough to make even the most obstinate elderly relative take note. And, in a recent episode, Adam gives the business to one of the most misunderstood tort cases.
As lawyers, most of us are trained to look beyond the tagline version of this case to the facts underneath, but not everyone is so savvy. Here Adam takes on commonly held beliefs — that are wrong — about the McDonald’s “hot coffee” case:
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Kathryn Rubino is an editor at Above the Law. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).