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"Hot coffee" redirects here. This article is about a modification that unlocks a controversial feature for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
For the beverage, see Coffee.
For the product liability suit over a cup of coffee served too hot, see Liebeck v. McDonald's Corp.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee

* Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for US $20,000 to cover her medical costs, but the company offered only US$800. When McDonald's refused to raise its offer, Liebeck filed suit, accusing McDonald's of "gross negligence" for selling coffee that was "unreasonably dangerous" and "defectively manufactured."

* McDonald's refused to settle perhaps because, though there had been numerous lawsuits alleging that hot coffee was "defectively manufactured," courts had consistently dismissed the cases before trial on the grounds that coffee burns were an open and obvious danger.

* the case it was discovered that McDonald's required franchises to serve coffee at 180-190 degrees Fahrenheit (82-88 degrees Celsius). At that temperature, the coffee would cause a third-degree burn in two to seven seconds. Stella Liebeck's attorney argued that coffee should never be served hotter than 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius), and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's.

# Documents obtained from McDonald's also showed that from 1982 to 1992, there were more than 700 complaints about the temperature of McDonald's coffee, some of which resulted in injuries of varying degrees of severity
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Corp.