29 U.S.C. § 524

Effect on State laws

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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or diminish the authority of any State to enact and enforce general criminal laws with respect to robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, or assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or conspiracy to commit any of such crimes.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1961–2025 · leading case: Brown v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders Int'l Union Local 54, 468 U.S. 491 (1984).
Brown v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders Int'l Union Local 54, 468 U.S. 491 (1984). · cites it 2× “" See also 29 U. S. C. § 524 (separate "saving clause" which explicitly preserves state authority to enforce general criminal laws).”
Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n v. Waterfront Comm'n of New York Harbor, 495 F. Supp. 1101 (S.D.N.Y. 1980). · cites it 2× “,” 29 U.S.C. § 524 , 38 the legislative history indicates that Congress was unwilling to permit states to use their criminal laws to interfere improperly with internal union affairs or functions.”
Midlothian State Bank v. Roth (In Re Roth), 43 B.R. 484 (N.D. Ill. 1984). “” 29 U.S.C. § 524 (c)(3) (emphasis added). Section 524(d)(1) requires the Bankruptcy Court at a discharge hearing to give the debtor what amounts to a short lecture on reaffirmation agreements.”
Montoya v. Local Union III of the Int'l Bhd. of Elec. Workers, 755 P.2d 1221 (Colo. Ct. App. 1988). “See also 29 U.S.C. § 524 (1983). We adopt the Bloom exception to federal preemption to the extent a claim is based on an employee’s unwillingness to aid his superior in the violation or concealment of a violation of a criminal statute.”
SGS-92-X003 v. United States, 85 Fed. Cl. 678 (Fed. Cl. 2009). “ASAC Salvemini identified this statutory limitation as 29 U.S.C. § 524 , but the Asset Forfeiture Statute containing this limitation is 28 U.”
Screen Extras Guild, Inc. v. Superior Court, 800 P.2d 873 (Cal. 1990). “*1045 omitted; 29 U.S.C. §§ 524 , 523(a).) 7 In addition, section 413, immediately following the provision in section 412 for a civil action for a violation of subchapter II rights, states: “Nothing contained in this subchapter [sub-chapter II] shall limit the rights and…”
Thomas H. Fitzgerald v. Martin P. Catherwood, as Indus. Comm'r of the State of New York, 388 F.2d 400 (2d Cir. 1968). “§ 504 (a), which disqualifies two classes of persons from holding union office — communists and certain felons— and to Section 604, 29 U.S.C. § 524 , which provides that nothing in the LMRDA shall be construed to impair the authority of the states to enforce general criminal…”
Bloom v. Gen. Truck Drivers, 783 F.2d 1356 (9th Cir. 1986). · cites it 3× “The remaining section, 29 U.S.C. § 524 , saves only state criminal laws and thus cannot directly save appellant’s civil action.”
Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders Int'l Union Local 54 v. Danziger, 709 F.2d 815 (3rd Cir. 1983). · cites it 3× “Because many of the proscribed activities were already crimes under state law and not protected activities under section 7 of the NLRA as amended, Congress decreed in section 604 of the LMRDA that it would not “impair or diminish the authority of any State to enact and enforce…”
United States v. Haverlick, 195 F. Supp. 331 (N.D.N.Y. 1961). “29 U.S.C.A. § 524 . For the reasons above indicated, the motion to dismiss is denied, and it is So ordered.”
Casiano v. Afscme Council 63 Officials (D.N.J. 2025). · cites it 5× “§ 431 (H); 29 U.S.C. § 524 (a); 29 U.S.C. § 481 (e); 29 ULS.”
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