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Man awarded $58 million after having skull bashed in bar fight

Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears at a news conference in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 1. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged after a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in, that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he has been awarded $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court. Read more from The Daily Breeze.
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Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears with his attorneys at a news conference in Los Angeles Monday, July 1, 2013. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he has been awarded a $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Nick Ut / AP / AP

Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears at a news conference in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 1. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged after a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in, that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he has been awarded $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court. Read more from The Daily Breeze.