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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Jesson reverses the district court's denial of the tenant's request for expungement of his eviction record. District courts have inherent authority to expunge such records, and on remand the district court is to apply a balancing test established in 1981 by the Minnesota Supreme Court for such cases, considering the difficulties the petitioner has demonstrated in securing housing as a result of the record, the nature and seriousness of the reason for eviction, the potential risk a petitioner may pose and the impact of that risk on the public's right to access records, any additional similar offenses or rehabilitative efforts since the eviction, objective evidence of hardship and how much, if any, back rent is owe and if there is a payment plan in place. Reversed.