New Documentary Offers Insight Into Media’s Role in Tort Reform
For many Americans, the famous McDonald’s coffee case has become prime example of a frivolous lawsuit which tie up valuable time and resources in our country’s courts and stall our justice system. However, Susan Saladoff believes that is just what McDonalds wants us to believe. Saladoff uses the legal battle over a spilled cup of coffee as a springboard into investigating our civil-justice system. She exposes the way corporations have spent millions of dollars distorting this case in order to promote tort reform. Saladoff believes that big business has continued this trend of manipulation and lies in order to protect its interests.
Saladoff’s new film, Hot Coffee, follows four people whose lives have been devastated by their inability to access the courts. This searing documentary unearths the sad truth that most of our beliefs about the civil-justice system have been shaped or bought by corporate America.