PAUL VON WIEDENFIELD ET AL VS. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL

SF Superior Court - Law & Motion / Discovery Dept 301 - CGC23609187 - December 18, 2025 Hearing date: December 18, 2025 Case number: CGC23609187 Case title: PAUL VON WIEDENFIELD ET AL VS. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL Case Number: | | CGC23609187 | Case Title: | | PAUL VON WIEDENFIELD ET AL VS. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL | Court Date: | | 2025-12-18 09:00 AM | Calendar Matter: | | Notice Of Motion And Motion To Seal | Rulings: | | On the Law and Motion/Discovery calendar for December 18, 2025, line 4. DEFENDANTS ABBOTT LABORATORIES, ABBOTT VASCULAR INC., ABBOTT VASCULAR SOLUTIONS INC.'S Motion To Seal.

Disclosure: Judge Van Aken discloses that her spouse is employed as a tenured professor at a UC campus. He has no connection to the events of this case. Disqualification is not required in this circumstance and the court concludes that a reasonable person aware of the facts would not reasonably entertain a doubt that the judge would be able to be impartial. (See Rothman, California Judicial Conduct Handbook (4th ed. 2017) 7:46 at pp. 464-465; CCP 170.1(a)(6)(A)(iii).)

Tentative Ruling: Hearing required for disclosure on the record. The court's tentative is to grant the unopposed motion to seal. Because the materials sought to be sealed were filed in connection with a discovery motion, no further findings are required.

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