29 U.S.C. § 524
Section 524 · Effect on State laws
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 54 Danziger (1984)
Most recently applied in Packowski v. United Food & Commercial Workers Local 951 (July 2010)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.