Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case Involving the Exempt Status of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives
Just weeks after the Ninth Circuit created a circuit split by ruling that pharmaceutical sales representatives are exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act's outside sales exemption (see our earlier post on that decision), the Supreme Court has declined to hear Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.'s appeal of a Second Circuit decision reaching the opposite conclusion. As a result, the existing circuit split will continue to exist, and drug companies facing current and potential litigation should not expect clarity on the issue in the foreseeable future.
