E.J.R. v. District Court, County of Boulder

The majority holds that E.J.R. has a vested privacy interest in his criminal records created by the district court’s 1991 sealing order (1991 order). In its desire to reach this conclusion, the majority characterizes as mere error the fact that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to seal the record of E.J.R.’s conviction. Because the majority’s rationalization contravenes the fundamental principle that a court must have *227jurisdiction to enter a valid order, I respectfully dissent.

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The facts set forth in the majority opinion accurately reflect the procedural history of…