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Stanford is not Monsanto.  It’s a highly respected University.  Santa Clara County is a nice place for it to have cases heard.  
Obviously there has to be policies and procedures that are reasonable.  But that includes the realization that College students are not going to sit in their rooms studying 12 hours a day.
Sorry, but given Stanfords resources and standing in the community  I don’t view them as the underdog in any litigation…. Far from it.

Back to the litigious :-). Stanford is indeed not Monsanto, but I am surprised that you believe that Santa Clara County is a nice place to have cases heard. I lived in Palo Alto for 14 years, and my work colleagues during those years lived mostly in Mountain View and further south. While they all pretty much respected Stanford as an "institution of higher learning", they were almost equally divided between those who thought the Stanford administrators were a bunch of smug malefactors who were actively trying to screw over Santa Clara County (and those who lived there) and the ones who though Stanford administrators were just a bunch of amoral people doing their jobs as they understood them. Both groups agreed that under no circumstances could Stanford be trusted. Interestingly, many of the people who trusted Stanford the least either worked there (my neighbors) or were alumni. I really don't think a jury pool of these folks would be real advantageous to Stanford as a defendant. I now live in Portola Valley, where many of my neighbors are "Stanford People". Their views are a bit more nuanced but when it comes to trusting Stanford's "good intentions", they don't. The "Stanford Trail" was a local cause celeb. Fortunately it kind of came out OK. Stanford indeed has resources, but their "standing in the community" is another story, based on my experience.

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Stanford is not Monsanto.  It’s a highly respected University.  Santa Clara County is a nice place for it to have cases heard.  
Obviously there has to be policies and procedures that are reasonable.  But that includes the realization that College students are not going to sit in their rooms studying 12 hours a day.
Sorry, but given Stanfords resources and standing in the community  I don’t view them as the underdog in any litigation…. Far from it.

Back to the litigious :-). Stanford is indeed not Monsanto, but I am surprised that you believe that Santa Clara County is a nice place to have cases heard. I lived in Palo Alto for 14 years, and my work colleagues during those years lived mostly in Mountain View and further south. While they all pretty much respected Stanford as an "institution of higher learning", they were almost equally divided between those who thought the Stanford administrators were a bunch of smug malefactors who were actively trying to screw over Santa Clara County (and those who lived there) and the ones who though Stanford administrators were just a bunch of amoral people doing their jobs as they understood them. Both groups agreed that under no circumstances could Stanford be trusted. Interestingly, many of the people who trusted Stanford the least either worked there (my neighbors) or were alumni. I really don't think a jury pool of these folks would be real advantageous to Stanford as a defendant. I now live in Portola Valley, where many of my neighbors are "Stanford People". Their views are a bit more nuanced but when it comes to trusting Stanford's "good intentions", they don't. The "Stanford Trail" was a local cause celeb. Fortunately it kind of came out OK. Stanford indeed has resources, but their "standing in the community" is another story, based on my experience.