Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees

Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 1984 Decided July 2, 1984
Full case name	Brown, Director, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming Enforcement, State of New Jersey, et al. v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders International Union Local 54 et al.
Citations	468 U.S. 491 (more) 104 S. Ct. 3179; 82 L. Ed. 2d 373; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 142; 52 U.S.L.W. 5042; 101 Lab. Cas. (CCH) ¶ 11,059; 5 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1585; 116 L.R.R.M. 2921
Case history
Prior	Hotel and Restaurant Employees v. Danzinger, 536 F. Supp. 317 (D.N.J. 1982); reversed, 709 F.2d 815 (3d Cir. 1983); probable jurisdiction noted, 464 U.S. 990 (1983).
Subsequent	Case remanded to the Court of Appeals with instructions to remand to the District Court for further proceedings
Holding
New Jersey's Casino Control Act, which imposed qualification standards on casino industry union officials, is not pre-empted by the National Labor Relations Act
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist
Dissent	White, joined by Powell, Stevens
Brennan, Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Casino Control Act, N.J. Stat. Ann. Section 5:12-1 et seq.; National Labor Relations Act

Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees, 468 U.S. 491 (1984), is a 4-to-3 ruling by the United States Supreme Court which held that a New Jersey state gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character was not preempted by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).^[1][2]