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Pollock and Crouse peddle the [[Mogen]] technique, but what they may not tell parents is that the Mogen clamp has been notorious for glans amputations, even among experienced conductors of circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Taeusch

|quote=...approximately 10% of the glans of a newborn was amputated (it was reattached surgically) during a Mogen circumcision carried out by two of our most experienced physicians. |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |date=2002-04 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<refname="tagami2011">{{REFnews

}}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company. |date=2010-07-19 |accessdatename=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011" /ref> after a ''mohel''<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http:"tagami2011" //www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08> }}</ref> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=The baby in the current case, identified in court documents only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis ... |date=2010-07-19 |accessdatename=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011" /ref> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http:/"tagami2011"/www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use... |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http[https://www.ajcfultoncourt.com/news/nation-worldorg/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=Attorney David Llewellyn won a similar case in Atlanta last year and the injury behind that prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court ] had already put the New York clamp manufacturer Mogen on notice about the danger of the device... |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate<ref name=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011"/ref> In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world"tagami2011"/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=Llewellyn won another circumcision case in 2009 over an operation at South Fulton Medical Center. |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=The jury found that both the pediatrician and the physician who performed the circumcision were negligent, and awarded $2.3 million to the plaintiffs. |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011"/ref>