the lawsuit to ban smoking on Atlantic City's casino floors just took a hit from a formidable team attorney general Matt platkin and Unite Here Local 54 which is the main Union representing Casino workers on Monday asked a judge to dismiss an anti-smoking lawsuit it was filed last month by a Grassroots group of other Casino workers who say they're quite literally sick from the secondhand smoke they breathe while on the job the group wants the court to overturn New Jersey's indoor smoking law which bans it virtually everywhere except casinos in a letter to the judge platkin defended the current law saying it doesn't deny any group of people equal protection and doesn't infringe on a constitutional right to safety the state and local 54 argue a total smoking ban would be catastrophic to Atlantic City and place thousands of jobs at risk but opponents point to Parks Casino outside Philly which has been thriving since putting a ban in place this is an issue which has enormous amount of passion around it uh and by the way the unions are divided on this at the end of the day whether it's through the courts or through legislation um and by the way I'm not going to comment on on on a lawsuit but my taste is that this gets resolved through legislation as opposed to the courts um but whatever it is I've said this from moment one and I'll reiterate if a Bill gets to my desk I will sign it [Music]