According to the Dallas Morning News, a lawsuit has been filed charging an anesthesiologist and a plastic surgeon with gross negligence in the case of a comatose former professional football player. Ron Springs, 51, formerly played for the Dallas Cowboys. He was having a cyst removed from his arm when he fell into a coma on the operating table. He had received a successful kidney transplant earlier the same year, the Dallas Morning News reported. The man's family, along with other plaintiffs, is seeking in a separate lawsuit to have the Texas legislature's $250,000 cap on pain and suffering awards declared unconstitutional.