Stupid Law Suit of the Year 2006. Pretty interesting.
Back in August, Starbucks launched what was meant to be a small promotion. The company e-mailed a coupon for a free iced coffee to a "limited group" of employees, encouraging them to forward it along to friends and family. When the promotion got out of hand -- with the e-mail zooming all over the Internet -- Starbucks announced that it would stop honoring the coupons. That might have been a clumsy P.R. move, but it definitely didn't justify what happened next.
A 23-year-old New York paralegal named Kelly Coakley claimed that she felt "betrayed" by the company and filed a lawsuit against Starbucks for a whopping $114 million. Where does that insane figure come from? According to published comments by Coakley's lawyer, Peter Sullivan, it's a "conservative figure" based on a cup of coffee per day for all the people turned away during the promotion's original 38-day time frame. Sullivan says he intends to make the case into a huge class-action suit. Wonder if he takes milk and sugar with his greed.
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Ha, ha; "these Americans are crazy" (tap, tap)
The image reminds me of Frederick Forsyth's short story Privilege, seen in No Comebacks.
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