Matter of O'Rourke v. New York City Hous. Auth.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It is peculiarly unjust to saddle an individual with a record in a case that should never have been begun”
• where defendant sought to expunge record after criminal charge dismissed, judge erred in allowing expungement because judge was limited by statutory scheme described in G. L. c. 276, § 100C, to sealing defendant’s record
• case for sealing record strong where prosecution abandoned because founded on mistake

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).