Casino workers seeking to end an exemption in the state’s indoor smoking ban asked New Jersey’s Supreme Court to take up their case as an expedited appeal Wednesday.

The filing by United Automobile Workers Region 9 — which represents casino dealers, slot machine attendants, and others on the casino floor — comes a little more than a week after a lower court judge ruled the exemption is constitutional.

“In this case, exclusion of casino workers from safety protections given to other workers is blatant favoritism for a powerful industry located in only one municipality in the State, precisely what the New Jersey Constitution prevents,” the plaintiffs said in their appeal.

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