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Personal Injury & Torts

Jul. 8, 2000

Working Through Pain

John J. Machado argued away sub rosa videotape of his client artificially inseminating a cow using his injured shoulder.

By Kelly E. Lee
        Counsel for a plaintiff claiming a shoulder injury won a $1.6 million settlement despite the defense's videotape of the plaintiff, two weeks before trial, physically straining the same shoulder to artificially inseminate a cow. The attorney convinced the jury that although the plaintiff could work as a professional inseminator of livestock, he deserved recompense...

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