Where’s Ted Frank when you need him?

A bad experience at Starbucks turned into big bucks — 301,000 of them — for a Manhattan lawyer who got a painful hotfoot when a steaming cup of coffee toppled onto her at the java palace.

“I jumped back and looked down,” Alice Griffin, 42, testified. “My foot was steaming, and the puddle was steaming.”

The jury’s April verdict was upheld yesterday by [New York] Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman — even though the jurist said she was “inclined to agree” the $301,000 that Griffin won at trial “was excessive.”

Gee, absolute deference by a judge. Go figure. I guess remittitur (let alone JNOV) would be “judicial activism.”

In any event, I’m far too humble to blog about hot coffee lawsuits at this site.

Maybe Ted will make a cameo today… [Editor’s note: And he did.]