Woolf v. Madison

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court’s inherent authority to control records may apply even where there is not a constitutional dimension
• noting also that police departments, correctional facilities, and the BCA “could be subject to orders not to disclose” but to a more “limited extent”
• noting that “the court must decide whether expungement will yield a benefit to the petitioner commensurate with the disadvantages to the public from the elimination of the record and the burden on the court in issuing, enforcing and monitoring an expungement order”
• it is beyond court's inherent power to regulate court records to command executive officials at state security hospital and state correctional facility not to disclose information
• “The clerk is subject to the inherent power of the court to control its internal records.”
• “The inherent authority of the courts to control the performance of judicial functions is well established.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).