Court Opinion

ID: 5431664
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:55:25.948596+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:39.364974
License: Public Domain

Walter, J.
This motion to annul determination of Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor refusing petitioner’s application for registration as a longshoreman is denied. The commission was created in consequence of shocking public disclosures respecting the prevalence of crime and criminals on the docks of New York harbor and as a means of correcting the conditions disclosed it was given discretionary power to refuse registration *547of ex-convicts. Whether or not in achieving that objective the commission is following the most enlightened policy toward ex-convicts who have given evidence of rehabilitation is the responsibility of the commission and of the legislative and executive branches of the government, not of the courts.