Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 54 v. Danziger, 709 F.2d 815 (3d Cir. 1983)

Third Circuit opinion of June 6, 1983 on Local 54's challenge to the New Jersey Casino Control Act provisions on union officials, which describes the union's size in the Atlantic City casino hotels.

Date: 1983-06-06
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: No. 82-5210
Rights: Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, June 6, 1983; argued November 15, 1982. Local 54 challenged provisions of the New Jersey Casino Control Act of 1977, which authorized licensing of Atlantic City hotels for casino gambling and created the Casino Control Commission and the Division of Gaming Enforcement. The court vacated the denial of a preliminary injunction and remanded.

The opinion states that the union “has approximately 12,000 members of whom over 8,000 are employed as waiters, waitresses, bartenders, cooks, kitchen help, housekeepers and other hotel service employees in those establishments in Atlantic City, New Jersey, licensed to operate” casinos.

This opinion does not mention Scarfo or Bruno. It is filed as the first federal stage of the dispute whose later stage, Local 54 v. Read, states the Casino Control Commission’s 1982 finding about Scarfo.

itemHotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 54 v. Read, 832 F.2d 263 (3d Cir. 1987)Third Circuit opinion of November 2, 1987 upholding New Jersey Casino Control Act provisions; it recounts the Commission's 1982 order removing two union officials for their association with Nicodemo Scarfo.itemPresident's Commission on Organized Crime, The Edge (1986): Atlantic City and Local 54The Atlantic City section of the President's Commission on Organized Crime's 1986 report on organized crime, business and labor unions, on the struggle for control of hotel workers' Local 54 after the casinos opened.