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![We now consider whether MSP Apartments has standing to challenge section
484.014, subdivision 3(a)(5), the provision upon which the district court relied in granting
N.P.’s request for expungement. The attorney general argues that MSP Apartments lacks
standing to challenge subdivision 3(a)(5) because it has not suffered an injury-in-fact as a
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result of the district court’s expungement of the eviction case.2 MSP Apartments asserts
that it suffered an injury-in-fact because (1) it was a plaintiff in the underlying action,
(2) the eviction expungement cancelled the reconveyance of N.P.’s interest in the property
back to MSP Apartments, and (3) the eviction expungement deprived MSP Apartments of
“leverage over [t]enants to be compensated for the damage caused to the building.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6qvpqglgnvmuy7sk6mzrtd4ent5bsmsj3u35ri5vlq6jcz64bke)
![See The Cost of Displacement, Inclusive Action for the City (July 31, 2020), https://www.inclusiveaction.org/blog/cost-of-displacement [https://perma.cc/8DL2-HWKY] (finding that evictions cost families between $7,000 to $11,000).
[25] See Ashley Meeder, Guilty Until Expunged: How Minnesota’s Public Records Policies Needlessly Burden Renters, Minn. L. Rev.: De Novo (Nov. 23, 2020), https://minnesotalawreview.org/2020/11/23/guilty-until-expunged-how-minnesotas-public-records-policies-needlessly-burden-renters/ [https://perma.cc/6X2R-562C].
[26] See Kshama Sawant, Reply to Mayor Durkan’s Letter RE: Winter Evictions, Seattle.gov: Kshama Sawant (Feb. 6, 2020), https://sawant.seattle.gov/reply-to-mayor-durkans-letter-re-winter-evictions/ [https://perma.cc/XVG2-MTGT] (suggesting that a moratorium might encourage tenants to “work out agreements with their landlord or access rental assistance programs.”).
[27] Compare Stephen Averill Sherman & Carlos Villegas, Update: Evictions Cost Harris County Over $240 Million a Year — That Was Before COVID-19, Rice Univ.: Kinder Inst. for Urb. Rsch. (Sept. 16, 2020), https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/09/16/evictions-cost-harris-county-over-315-million-each-year-housing-crisis-COVID-19 [https://perma.cc/QVL6-HAT2] (finding that 35,335 evictions cost Harris County’s public and private sector entities $241.4 million), with supra note 11 and accompanying text.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreidmy4bizxcfeohb4gt2n5ixwi5jszm5okhnul27mjcryf22gofn3i)
