Hotel 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.

Date: 1987-11-02
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: No. 86-5658
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, November 2, 1987; argued August 4, 1987, rehearing denied December 4, 1987. The court rejected Local 54’s First and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to sections 86(f) and 93 of the New Jersey Casino Control Act.

The facts section states that on September 28, 1982 the Casino Control Commission ordered union president Frank Gerace and business agent Frank Materio removed. “The basis for the Commission’s order was a finding that Gerace and Materio were disqualified under Sec. 86(f) of the Casino Control Act as a result of their association with Nicodemus Scarfo, a reputed member of organized crime.” The opinion spells the name “Nicodemus.”

That is a state commission’s finding as the federal court reports it. The words “reputed member” are the Commission’s. The state-court proceeding the opinion cites was not opened for this archive.

itemHotel 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.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.