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by GavinMcG 2955 days ago
There's a significant difference between a fee being a necessary condition and a fee being sufficient. A court system where paying a fee is truly sufficient is a corrupt one, just like the website.

Equating them only works if courts are all corrupt. While corruption is obviously a possibility in court systems, we expect the decision to expunge to be based on justice concerns, even if we do also require a fee for the process.