Brach v. Chief Justice of District Court Department

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• deciding against dismissal, even though the case was moot, because the issues had been fully argued by both sides
• administrative regulation of general applicability concerning the surrender of drivers’ licenses of persons convicted of certain motor vehicle offenses
• “All the inherent powers recognized by this court . . . have involved the internal functioning of the judiciary”
• “No purpose is served by permitting persons convicted of the serious motor vehicle offenses ... to retain their operators’ privileges for even a brief period”
• district court acting as agent of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in accepting motor vehicle license on. conviction of a crime violates the separation of powers provision of the Massachusetts Constitution
• court facilities may be maintained by either executive branch or judicial branch

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).