American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Frisco Transportation Co.

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• holding that administrative agencies may correct decisions containing clerical errors or issued inadvertently but \may not use [such a pretext] for changing previous decisions because the wisdom of past decisions appears doubtful in the light of changing policies\
• “It is axiomatic that courts have the power and the duty to correct judgments which contain clerical errors or judgments which have issued due to inadvertence or mistake.”
• “It is axiomatic that courts have the power and the duty to correct judgments which contain clerical errors or judgments which have issued due to inadvertence or mistake.”
• \It is axiomatic that courts have the power and the duty to correct judgments which contain clerical errors or judgments which have issued due to inadvertence or mistake.\
• “[A] party may not use ‘the power to correct inadvertent ministerial errors ... as a guise for changing previous decisions.”
• agency power to correct ministerial errors may not be used as guise for changing previous decisions because the wisdom of those decisions appears doubtful in light of changing policies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).