United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit for back pay, challenging the defendant-employer's classification of plaintiffs as "outside salesmen", a legal designation that exempts an employee from the FLSA's overtime-pay requirement, grant of summary judgment to employer is affirmed where the pharmaceutical industry's representatives (detail men and women) share many more similarities than differences with their colleagues in other sales fields, and are thus are exempt from the FLSA overtime-pay requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2011
• Published 02/15/2011

Judges

• M. SMITH

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel