Lawsuit filed over Frontier strike

Friday, Jan. 30, 1998 | 9:41 a.m.

SUN STAFF REPORTS

As the third anniversary of the Culinary Union strike at the Frontier Hotel approaches Wednesday, the union and the resort find themselves facing another lawsuit.

Suhail Haddad, who claimed he was beaten by pickets Feb. 16, 1993, as he was attempting to enter the Frontier, filed a lawsuit Monday seeking more than $100,000 in compensation plus $1 million in punitive damages.

In the lawsuit, filed by attorney Jason Awad, Haddad contends he was grabbed by a picketer in the north parking lot, knocked to the ground and threatened with death.

Haddad suffered "severe physical and mental injuries" in the "outrageous ... brutal beating," the lawsuit contends.

The hotel was alleged to have contributed because it failed to post warnings to would-be customers of "hundreds of verbal and physical assaults on patrons and tourists" since the beginning of the strike.

The case has been assigned to District Judge Myron Leavitt, who has been presiding over other issues involving the strike.

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