The next Citizens United may have nothing to do with campaign finance or the First Amendment.

If the Supreme Court rules that pharmaceutical sales representatives are exempt from FLSA overtime requirements, it could knock out class action claims pending against a half-dozen drug companies. But Novartis apparently wasn’t willing to gamble that the justices would see things the drug companies’ way.

Gov. Chris Christie has announced two nominees who, if confirmed, would become the first Asian-American and the first openly gay justice on New Jersey’s Supreme Court. The candidates are First Assistant New Jersey Attorney General Phillip Kwon and Bruce Harris, Chatham mayor and of counsel to Greenberg Traurig.

A class of consumers challenging “pay for delay” drug settlements is asking California’s Supreme Court to find that pharmaceutical patent holders violate antitrust laws when they pay competitors to put off the potential release of generic medicines — a practice estimated to cost consumers $3.5 billion a year in inflated prices.

A California appeal court has reinstated a suit by a woman who claimed that a Brookstone store illegally asked for her ZIP code during a credit card transaction. The ruling is the first to retrospectively apply a state Supreme Court decision that found ZIP codes were “personal identification information.”