Judge Dismisses Workers’ Challenge To Casinos’ Indoor Smoking Exception

(September 9, 2024, 8:36 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey state court judge granted a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by two workers’ groups seeking to block Atlantic City, N.J., casinos from continuing to allow smoking indoors under a casino-specific exemption to a state law banning indoor smoking, finding the plaintiffs failed to plead a state right to safety and did not overcome Atlantic City’s “special constitutional status” which permits certain exemptions from state law....