Legal Opinion
Percy Donald Livingston v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 5, 1985No. 83-2251PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge BAZELON.
BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Percy Donald Livingston appeals the order of our district court granting summary judgment to the Justice Department in his suit urging the court to expunge the records of two prior arrests. We vacate the district court’s order. The court adjudicated on the merits a case that ought to have been transferred to a more convenient forum. Moreover, the district court misconstrued and misapplied the law of this circuit regarding expungement of arrest records.
I. Background
Appellant was first arrested in 1945, at…
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