-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, SdSNSmiDquh+G9uGXih30y/9Q6qC27Oxcu3YrXQVitJN0TDOD1biWimMfdvRRnhK mMJMTmgbcED/RMG0QNxGYA== 0000897101-04-000037.txt : 20040106 0000897101-04-000037.hdr.sgml : 20040106 20040106165419 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000897101-04-000037 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040105 ITEM INFORMATION: Regulation FD Disclosure FILED AS OF DATE: 20040106 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ST JUDE MEDICAL INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000203077 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTROMEDICAL & ELECTROTHERAPEUTIC APPARATUS [3845] IRS NUMBER: 411276891 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12441 FILM NUMBER: 04510779 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE LILLEHEI PLAZA CITY: ST PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55117 BUSINESS PHONE: 6514832000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE LILLEHEI PLAZA CITY: ST PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55117 8-K 1 stjude040052_8k.htm St. Jude Form 8-K

UNITED STATES
 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington D.C. 20549


FORM 8-K


CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) January 5, 2004


ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its chapter)

Minnesota   0-8672   41-1276891  
(State or other jurisdiction  (Commission  (IRS Employer 
of incorporation)  File Number)  Identification No.) 

One Lillehei Plaza, St. Paul, MN
55117
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (651) 483-2000

Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)



Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure

On January 5, 2004, Judge Tunheim ruled on two motions brought by the Registrant in the Silzone class action litigation pending in federal district court in Minnesota. A summary of the rulings is furnished herewith as Exhibit 1.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

    ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.  


Date: January 6, 2004

 

By:  /s/  Kevin T. O'Malley
Kevin T. O'Malley
Vice President and
General Counsel








EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit Description of Exhibit

1		  
Summary of Judge Tunheim’s Rulings		  
 EX-99.1 3 stjude040052_ex99-1.htm St. Jude Form 8-K Exhibit 1

Exhibit 1

Further Developments in U.S. Silzone Class Action Cases

On January 5, Judge Tunheim ruled on two motions brought by the Company in the Silzone class action litigation pending in federal district court in Minnesota.

Judge Tunheim ruled against the Company on the issue of preemption and held that the plaintiff’s causes of action were not preempted by the U.S. Food and Drug Act.

Judge Tunheim separately ruled on the ability of certain claims to proceed as class actions. He declined to grant class action status to personal injury claims. He granted class action status to medical monitoring claims of patients from 13 states and the District of Columbia where the law permits a certain type of medical monitoring claim, but he invited further briefing on exactly which states fall into this category and how a class involving such claims would proceed.

The court’s past practice has been to post rulings such as this on the court’s website at www.mnd.uscourts.gov.

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