Apton v. Wilson

U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit · Decided 1974-08-16

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LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge: These cases arise from law enforcement activities during the “May Day Demonstrations” of May, 1971, described in Sullivan v. Murphy. 1 That was a class action in which plaintiffs complaining of arrest, detention, fingerprinting, booking, and prosecution without probable cause sought expungement of police records. This court held that a class action was appropriate in light of…

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