Nancy Sullivan v. C. Francis Murphy, Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• declining to address a second potential basis for jurisdiction having already found another
• mass arrest of “May Day” protesters of U. S. military involvement in Southeast Asia in violation of Fourth Amendment
• expungement of arrest records ordered when court determined that arrests were for sole purpose of harassing civil rights workers
• mass arrests, without probable cause, of thousands of individuals protesting American military involvement in Southeast Asia
• participants and bystanders arrested in 1972 Washington May Day demonstration entitled to order expunging or restricting use of arrest records compiled during unlawful detention
• participants and bystanders arrested in 1972 Washington May Day demonstration entitled to order expunging or restricting use of arrest records compiled during unlawful detention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).