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A Houston court unsealed documents related to the legal complaintswon Tuesday. Other companies named in the suitincludes , a Natick, Mass.-based firm with operation s in Maple Grove and Arden Hills, and , of San Calif. Endoscopic has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settler 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 process set forthn in the statute for the handlingh of these kinds of cases.
" "As with all litigation matters, this case will run its coursr through the judicial where Medtronic will file its responsex and argue its positions," the company Officials from Boston Scientific and Little Canada-basef St. Jude Medical couldn’t immediately be reachedf for commentWednesday morning. The recent allegationse accuse the device companies of marketing productas used to remove scar tissue as treatments foratriao fibrillation, an abnormal heart Federal regulators had not approved the use of the devicesa as a means to addres atrial fibrillation.