Legal Opinion
W. Va. Pipe Trades Health & Welfare Fund v. Medtronic, Inc.
District Court, D. Maine
Decided March 2, 2018No. Civil No. 13–1686 (JRT/FLN)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. TUNHEIM, Chief Judge *1059Plaintiffs retirement and investment funds ("Plaintiffs") bring this consolidated class action alleging that Medtronic, Inc., ("Medtronic") and a number of its officers and employees ("Individual Defendants") engaged in a scheme to defraud investors. In particular, Plaintiffs allege that Medtronic artificially inflated its stock price by manipulating early clinical studies of two bone-morphogenetic-protein ("BMP") products-INFUSE and AMPLIFY. Individual Defendants William A. Hawkins, Gary L. Ellis, Richard E. Kuntz, Dr. Julie Bearcroft, Dr. Richard Treharne, and…
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