Legal Opinion
St. Jude Medical, Inc. v. Lifecare International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 2, 2001No. 00-1744PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAUGHREY, District Judge.
St. Jude Medical, Inc., and its subsidiaries 2 (St.Jude), manufacture and distribute heart valves and other medical devices. During 1987 and 1988, Lifecare International, Inc. (Lifecare), through its president, Tony Dow, approached St. Jude to become a distributor of St. Jude’s products. After negotiations, St. Jude and Lifecare contracted to make Lifecare a distributor for St. Jude’s products in certain Middle Eastern countries. In 1992, with the help of Lifecare, St. Jude successfully bid on a contract to supply heart valves and balloon catheters to a purchasing…
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