Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII Hip Implant Judge Orders Howmedica to Reproduce Redacted Documents

MINNEAPOLIS –– Howmedica must reproduce documents it previously redacted, the federal court overseeing the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII Hip Implant multidistrict litigation docket has ruled, after finding that “nothing in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits the unilateral redaction of information … that one party or the other deems not relevant.”

In the June 20 order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota also addressed Howmedica Osteonics Corp.’s motion to compel and its request for clarification on the meaning and scope of the common benefit order.

In Howmedica’s motion to compel, it argued that a number of …