Most of Documents Sought by Bloomberg to be Unsealed Remain Sealed
The District Court of Minnesota refused to unseal documents containing trade secrets and private information in In re Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability Litigation, 2007 WL 2914517 (D. Minn. 10/3/07).
The lawsuit involves defibrillators produced by Guidant Corp., which recently merged with Boston Scientific. The parties had agreed to keep certain documents under seal. Bloomberg moved to intervene and to unseal documents that had been attached to summary judgment motions. The parties agreed to unseal some of the documents but objected to unsealing documents that contained trade secrets of the defendants or private information of the plaintiff.
The court refused to unseal any documents containing trade secrets or private information, which constituted the bulk of the requested documents. The remaining documents will be unsealed.
