What was Stella Liebeck's role in the case Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants? Group of answer choices She was the daughter of the defendant, and she was forced by the court to give testimony against her mother, the defendant, and that testimony led to her mother's conviction. She was the defendant in this famous defamation case; she lost at the trial court, but she appealed, and the Supreme Court ruled that she could not be liable because she had not acted with "actual malice." She was an attorney who sued McDonald's for contract violations under the fellow servant rule. She was the defendant in tort suit in which McDonald's sued her for malicious misuse of the courts. She was the plaintiff in tort suit against McDonald's after she was severely injured by scalding hot coffee