New York: College Student Files $1 Million Lawsuit After Getting Scalded by Coffee Sold at Library Cafe

From the Staten Island Advance:

A College of Staten Island [part of the City University of New York] student was scalded by a cup of hot coffee, which spilled onto her in a café at the school library, alleges a $1-million lawsuit.
Bernadette Dunning was burned on March 3 of last year at Bits and Bytes Cyber Cafe, when something fell from the top of a cash register and knocked over a cup of coffee she was attempting to buy, contends the suit, filed in state Supreme Court, St. George.
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Ms. Dunning sued Auxiliary Services Corporation, identifying it in her court papers as the café’s owner and manager.
According to the school’s website, CSI Auxiliary Services Corporation is a nonprofit corporation established nearly 40 years ago to provide services and products to students, faculty, staff and visitors at the Willowbrook school. Its 11-member board consists of five students, two faculty members and four administration representatives.
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Situated at the library, the café also contains nine computer stations.

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