CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Security Level, Jake Gyllenhaal, Reasonable Doubt
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Media was spinning this on the lady that sued mcdonald"s. Because like obviously the coffee is hot and you are an idiot for suing them. But the reality is that mcdonald"s served the coffee 200 degrees hotter than usual. Mcdonald kept their coffee so hot because many people used to commute and still want their coffee to be hot. Punitive damages = change behavior of company (kft) You can only reform the behavior in civil court through money. Wordcom scandal (huge white collar crime case) Was the united states" second largest long distance telephone company (after at&t) High flying ceo, he was fancy, buying lots of stuff behind scenes. When things started to deteriorate he was still spending loads of money. When there is a financial crisis, white collar crimes get exposed. It was estimated that the company"s total assets had been inflated by about 11 billion. This made the worldcom scandal the largest accounting fraud in american history until.
