Texas Tribune Daily Brief | | Sleep-Deprived Drivers Have Plenty in Common with Drunk Drivers | | Drivers who have had too little sleep are no different than those who have had three or four drinks and are too drunk to drive. Those are the findings of an AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report released Tuesday that draws on original research and past studies to create a troubling picture of the risk caused by a go-go world where many people donâ??t get enough rest. About 35 percent of people get fewer than the needed seven hours of sleep, and 12 percent say they sleep for five hours or less, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ashley Halsey III, The Washington Post 12/07/2016 | Read Article: The Washington Post | Lawsuit: Stanford Failed to Protect Students from Sexual Predator | | A lawsuit has been filed against Stanford University by a student who alleges that the school failed to protect students from a violent sexual predator. The lawsuit contends that the school failed to act on allegations that a male student was sexually violent and allowed him to graduate from the university. The civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit was filed by a female student who contends that the male student attacked her in February 2014. The plaintiff alleges that the man physically assaulted and verbally abused her. Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle 12/06/2016 | Read Article: San Francisco Chronicle | Oklahoma Residents File Suit Against Energy Companies Over Another Earthquake | | A group of residents from Payne County, Oklahoma, have filed a lawsuit over an earthquake in Cushing. The lawsuit, which is seeking class action status, was filed against five energy companies with wastewater disposal wells in the area where the earthquake took place. A similar lawsuit was filed last month by residents of Pawnee, after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in September. The most recent lawsuit seeks $10,000 for property damages, market value losses to property, emotional distress, and punitive damages. Paul Monies, NewsOK.com 12/07/2016 | Read Article: NewsOK.com | Texas High School Student Files Suit Over Sex Scandal | | A San Antonio, Texas, high school student has filed a federal lawsuit over a sex scandal that involved a teacher and a district police officer. According to the young woman's lawsuit, both the teacher and the police officer sexually attacked her while she was a student at the school. The lawsuit alleges that the girl became pregnant with the teacher's child in December 2014 or January 2015. DNA testing confirmed that the teacher was the biological father of the child. The lawsuit lists as defendants Memorial High School, the Edgewood Independent School District, the Edgewood Police Department, the former chemistry teacher and former district police officer. David Ibanez, KSAT.com 12/06/2016 | Read Article: KSAT.com | Loose Cows Lead to $8.9M Verdict Over Fiery Crash in Amarillo | | A Dallas judge (Judge Emily Tobolowsky) awarded $8.9 million in damages to a man who was injured in a collision with several cows on a road near Amarillo in 2011, KFDA-TV in Amarillo reported. Bobby Tunnell, who had to be pulled from a pickup truck before it exploded after the wreck, sued the cowsâ?? owner, Richard Archer, for negligence.At one point, Archerâ??s attorneys, citing state tort reform law, argued that the case should be treated as a medical malpractice lawsuit because Archer was a doctor, even though he did not know Tunnell, according to the KFDA. RYAN OSBORNE, Star Telegram 12/07/2016 | Read Article: Star Telegram | J&J Questions Fairness of Hip Implant Trial, $1 billion Verdict | | Johnson & Johnson will challenge the fairness of a trial that produced a verdict of $1 billion in damages against the company last week over allegations of design flaws in its Pinnacle hip implant. Although legal experts think J&J faces an uphill battle, both they and investors believe the Texas jury's penalty, the largest product liability verdict so far this year, is unlikely to stand. Erica Teichert, Reuters 12/07/2016 | Read Article: Reuters | | |