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Analyze the issue based on the following criteria:

• Identify the parties involved in the case dispute (who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant).
• Identify the facts associated with the case and fact patterns.
• Develop the appropriate legal issue(s) in question (i.e., the specific legal issue between the two parties).Provide a judgment on who should win the case – be clear.
• Support your decision with an appropriate rule of law.
• Be prepared to defend your decision and to objectively evaluate the other points of view.

Baxter Pharmacy paid its pharmacists a salary but no overtime pay. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA), employers must pay employees over-time for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week. Baxter Pharmacy believes that the phar-macists are exempt under FLSA because they are “ professionals.” The pharmacists disagree.

Is being a professional an exemption from the requirement to pay overtime under FLSA? Are pharmacists pro-fessionals? How do you think the court ruled? [ De Jesus- Rentas v. Baxter Pharmacy Services Corp., 400 F. 3d 72 ( 1st Cir. 2005).]