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SmithKline Beecham Corp.</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Seal of the United States Supreme Court"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/100px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="720" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding-top: 0.5em; font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Argued April 16, 2012<br />Decided June 18, 2012</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Full case name</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Michael Shane Christopher, et al., Petitioners v. Smithkline Beecham Corporation dba GlaxoSmithKline</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Docket no.</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docketfiles/11-204.htm">11-204</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citations</th><td class="infobox-data">567 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> 142 (<i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_567" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 567">more</a></i>)<div>132 S. Ct. 2156; 183 <a href="/wiki/L._Ed._2d" class="mw-redirect" title="L. Ed. 2d">L. Ed. 2d</a> 153; 2012 <a href="/wiki/U.S._LEXIS" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. LEXIS">U.S. LEXIS</a> 4657; 19 WH Cases 2d 257; 80 U.S.L.W. 4463</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Case history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Prior</th><td class="infobox-data">Summary judgement granted to Glaxo, No. CV-08-1498-PHX-FJM (<a href="/wiki/D._Ariz." class="mw-redirect" title="D. Ariz.">D. Ariz.</a> 2009); affirmed, 635 <a href="/wiki/F.3d" class="mw-redirect" title="F.3d">F.3d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20110214128">383</a> (<a href="/wiki/9th_Cir." class="mw-redirect" title="9th Cir.">9th Cir.</a> 2011); <a href="/wiki/Certiorari" title="Certiorari">cert</a>. granted, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_565" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 565">565</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> 1057 (2011).</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Holding</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">The petitioners – pharmaceutical sales representatives whose primary duty is to obtain nonbinding commitments from physicians to prescribe their employer’s prescription drugs in appropriate cases – qualify as outside salesmen under the most reasonable interpretation of the Department of Labor’s regulations.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Court membership</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><dl style="margin:0; padding:0.1em 0.5em; text-align:center; line-height:1.3em;"> <dt style="margin:0;">Chief Justice</dt> <dd style="margin:0 0 0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> </dd> <dt style="margin:0;">Associate Justices</dt> <dd style="margin:0;"><a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a> <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Clarence Thomas</a> <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Breyer" title="Stephen Breyer">Stephen Breyer</a> <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Samuel Alito</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sonia Sotomayor</a> <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a> </dd></dl></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Case opinions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Majority</th><td class="infobox-data">Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dissent</th><td class="infobox-data">Breyer, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #99c0ff; white-space:nowrap">Laws applied</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">The <a href="/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Fair Labor Standards Act">Fair Labor Standards Act</a> of 1938; 29 U.S.C. §§ 206-207 (2006 ed. and Supp. IV); 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.</b></i>, 567 U.S. 142 (2012), is a <a href="/wiki/US_labor_law" class="mw-redirect" title="US labor law">US labor law</a> case of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">United States Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It held that <a href="/wiki/Pharmaceutical" class="mw-redirect" title="Pharmaceutical">pharmaceutical</a> <a href="/wiki/Sales_representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Sales representatives">sales representatives</a> were not eligible for <a href="/wiki/Overtime_pay" class="mw-redirect" title="Overtime pay">overtime pay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BI_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court ruled in a <a href="/wiki/Majority_opinion" title="Majority opinion">majority opinion</a> written by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Justice Samuel Alito</a> that sales representatives were classified as "outside salesmen" who are exempt from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor" title="United States Department of Labor">Department of Labor</a>'s regulations regarding overtime pay.<sup id="cite_ref-scotusblog_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scotusblog-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Facts">Facts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christopher_v._SmithKline_Beecham_Corp.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Facts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Michael Christopher and Frank Buchanan worked for <a href="/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline" class="mw-redirect" title="GlaxoSmithKline">GlaxoSmithKline</a>, and claimed overtime pay under the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Fair Labor Standards Act">Fair Labor Standards Act</a>. They argued they were employees under 29 USC § 207(a),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while GSK contended they were acting ‘in the capacity of outside salesman’ under § 213(a).<sup id="cite_ref-USC213a_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USC213a-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In turn 29 C.F.R. § 541.500 defined ‘outside salesman’ as ‘any employee’ whose duty was ‘making sales’ under § 203(k) which said that included ‘any sale, exchange, contract to sell’ and so on.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christopher and Buchanan were sales representatives for around four years from 2003, who marketed to physicians to buy the company's products. They spent 40 hours a week calling physicians, and another 10 to 20 hours attending events and performing other miscellaneous tasks. Their pay included a salary and bonus pay, based on performance in selling. In a <a href="/wiki/Class_action_lawsuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Class action lawsuit">class action lawsuit</a>, they sought time and a half for over 40 hours work.<sup id="cite_ref-nj.com_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nj.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Arizona" title="United States District Court for the District of Arizona">United States District Court for the District of Arizona</a> granted a judgment in favor of GlaxoSmithKline. After the <a href="/wiki/US_Department_of_Labor" class="mw-redirect" title="US Department of Labor">Department of Labor</a> filed an <i><a href="/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae">amicus</a></i> in a related case in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit">Second Circuit</a>, they appealed to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a> in California, which affirmed the lower court's decision.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-scotusblog-detailed_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scotusblog-detailed-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chicago-tribune_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicago-tribune-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plaintiffs then appealed to the Supreme Court.<sup id="cite_ref-BI_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judgment">Judgment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christopher_v._SmithKline_Beecham_Corp.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Judgment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Supreme Court held, by a five to four majority, that Christopher and Buchanan were not entitled to overtime pay under the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Fair Labor Standards Act">Fair Labor Standards Act</a>, because they were effecting sales within the Act's exception in § 213(a).<sup id="cite_ref-USC213a_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USC213a-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas joined. </p><p>Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan joined. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christopher_v._SmithKline_Beecham_Corp.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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