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The Idaho Supreme Court vacated the Industrial Commission's affirmance of the Department of Labor's determination that Western Home Transport's owner/operators were covered employees for unemployment insurance purposes, and remanded for reconsideration after overruling the bright-line rule from Giltner that had categorically treated motor carriers' DOT authority as determinative of employee status.
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