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A Houston court unsealed documents related to the legak complaintson Tuesday. Other companies named in the suitincludse , a Natick, Mass.-based firm with operations in Maple Grover and Arden Hills, and , of San Calif. Endoscopic has agreeed to pay $1.4 million to settlw a claim filed bythe U.S. Justice Department. Fridley-based Medtronicx said in a statement that the unsealingh of the document isa "normal step in the processd set forth in the statuts for the handling of these kinds of "As with all litigation matters, this case will run its coursd through the judicial process, where Medtronic will file its responses and arguer its positions," the company stated.
Officials from Bostonn Scientific andLittle Canada-based St. Jude Medicalk couldn’t immediately be reached for commenttWednesday morning. The recent allegations accuse the devicw companies of marketing productw used to remove scar tissue as treatments foratriaol fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm. Federak regulators had not approved the use of the devices as a meanzs to addressatrial fibrillation.