In re Time Sales Finance Corp.

How later courts describe this case

• finding expungement of records of mass arrests appropriate where established procedures broke down so that there was no showing of probable cause
• Younger considered inapposite in injunctive action for expungement of records of mass arrests instituted after effective date of Court Reorganization Act
• when constitutional rights are infringed, federal rather than state law defines those rights
• case of mass arrest where probable cause was impossible to determine
• fourth and fifth amendments, jurisdiction; favorable dicta on remedy
• federal, not state, law determines defense of immunity
• fourteenth amendment due process, cause of action