Record
Court opinion
1981-05-06
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Rosenthal v. State of Nevada, 514 F. Supp. 907 (D. Nev. 1981)
District of Nevada order of May 6, 1981 dismissing Frank Rosenthal's civil-rights suit against Nevada gaming regulators, with the court's account of his position at the Argent Corporation, his licensing denials and his work at the Stardust.
- Date
- 1981-05-06
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- 514 F. Supp. 907 (D. Nev. 1981)
- 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 District Court, District of Nevada, Civ. No. LV 79-39 RDF, Judge Roger D. Foley, May 6, 1981. Frank Rosenthal sued on March 13, 1979 the State of Nevada, the Nevada Gaming Commission, the State Gaming Control Board and members of each, alleging deprivation of rights under the Constitution. The court’s order, on the defendants’ motions, dismisses the suit on res judicata and immunity grounds. This is a federal opinion, not a state gaming record.
The court’s account of the facts begins: “In 1974, Frank Rosenthal was executive consultant to the Chairman of the Board of the Argent Corporation, a holding company, which owned three major hotel-casinos in Clark County.” In January 1975 he was required to apply for a gaming license as a “key employee,” and it was denied in January 1976 and again in 1978. The opinion says that “the plaintiff became Food and Beverage Director and, later, Entertainment Director for the Stardust Hotel,” owned by Argent’s subsidiary Karat, Inc.
The opinion states the state-law dispute over the license, which the court treated as settled in state proceedings. It makes no finding about the casinos’ ownership or about skimming. The FBI’s description of Rosenthal’s role is on the page for the 1975 airtel.
