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Review declined in temp case ;High court again refuses to address issue of benefits eligibility.

Business Insurance, January, 2000 by JUDY GREENWALD, AMANDA MILLIGAN,

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review several cases last week that employers and insurers watched closely, though it did hand down rulings on other issues relating to labor and insurance. For the second time in two years, the justices refused to hear an appeal by Microsoft Corp.

in the Vizcaino temporary workers case. In the latest development, the court denied a Microsoft request to hear an appeal of a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco related to the size of the class of temporary workers who are eligible to participate in Microsoft's employee stock purchase plan. That May 1999 appellate decision overturned a Seattle district court decision that had restricted the class to only pre-1990 temporary employees....

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