It was a bad day yesterday for plaintiffs' lawyers, particularly class action lawyers, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Wal-Mart v. Dukes, holding that the giant gender discrimination class action suit against the company was simply too big to succeed. But here's some consolation for the plaintiffs' bar -- an upcoming HBO documentary, Hot Coffee, that aims to cure the public perception of consumer litigation from the scalding it took as a result of the McDonald's hot coffee case. This review in the Washington Post says it succeeds:
With its energetic pacing, bold visuals and the kind of narrative that sends audiences out of the theater thinking in a brand-new way about something they thought they understood, "Hot Coffee" deserves the kind of release enjoyed by "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Food, Inc."
