Tort Reform

If you missed last night’s premiere of HOT COFFEE on HBO, you can still catch this important film.

HBO and HBO2 are re-airing the film several times over the next few weeks (all times Central):

• HBO: June 30 (12:30 PM), July 2 (9:00 AM), July 5 (9:30 AM), July 10 (3:00 PM), July 12 (11:30 PM)
• HBO2: June 29 (7:00 PM), July 16 (5:10 AM), July 25 (3:55 AM), July 28 (5:30 PM)

It is also available on HBO’s on-demand service. And, DVDs will be available in the fall. You can sign up to pre-order DVDs here.

HOT COFFEE examines the dangers of so-called “tort reform” and its threat to our civil justice system. Using the now-infamous legal battle over a spilled cup of McDonald’s coffee as a springboard,  the film follows four families, including McDonald’s plaintiff Stella Liebeck and KBR/Halliburton plaintiff Jaime Leigh Jones, whose lives have been profoundly affected by their inability to access the courts, and examines the role of corporations and a complicit media in promoting “tort reform.”