Breaking with the Second Circuit, the Seventh Circuit has ruled that FLSA overtime rules don’t apply to sales representatives for Abbott and Eli Lilly, just as the U.S. Supreme Court is mulling GlaxoSmithKline’s obligations to sales reps in a similar case.

Several justices of the Georgia Supreme Court seemed taken aback Monday by the size of a $459 million judgment against “junk fax” senders, particularly given that only six individuals have been named as having received any of the estimated 306,000 ads blasted out on behalf of a long-shuttered home improvement company.

A hedge fund compliance officer who was fired shortly after confronting his boss about allegedly improper trades is an at-will employee with no common law protection against wrongful termination, a fractured New York Court of Appeals has held.

Putting forward a standard that will help defendants transfer patent cases out of plaintiff-friendly East Texas, the Federal Circuit has reversed a lower court ruling that allowed non-practicing entity Oasis Research to lump 12 defendants into one patent case in U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas.

A New York appellate panel has upheld a $1.7 million arbitration in favor of an investor in J. Ezra Merkin’s Ascot Partners, a “feeder fund” into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.