063860P.pdf   04/09/2008  Lester Grovatt  v.  St. Jude Medical
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3860
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Riley and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - products liability. In litigation concerning the Silzone
   prosthetic heart valve, the district court erred in certifying a consumer
   protection class of plaintiffs; the record shows that there are material
   variations in the representations made concerning the valve, as well as
   material differences in the kind and degree of reliance; since the trial will
   require physician-by-physician inquiry into each doctor's sources of
   information about the valve, the case is not suited for trial as a class
   action; class certification was inappropriate for the further reason that the
   record shows that individual issues would predominate the remedial
   phase of the proposed class action, as plaintiffs have requested highly
   individualized medical monitoring as part of the remedy.