United States v. Zalmon Schnitzer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[a] court, sitting in a criminal prosecution, has ancillary jurisdiction to issue protective orders regarding dissemination of arrest records” (emphasis added)
• holding that district courts may expunge criminal arrest records in extreme cases
• noting that “[n]o federal statute provides for the expungement of an arrest record,” but that “expungement lies within the equitable discretion of the court” (emphasis added)
• noting that “[n]o federal statute provides for the 2 expungement of an arrest record,” but that “expungement lies within the 3 equitable discretion of the court” (emphasis added)
• denying expungement request made by a rabbinical student, notwithstanding claim that arrest and indictment record would interfere with career, because the arrest, indictment, and statute under which the petitioner was charged were valid
• “[T]he power to expunge is ‘a narrow one, … [and] should be reserved for the unusual or extreme case.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).