Zundel v. City of Jamestown

Summary

The Court held that retention of and access to municipal court records implicate a sufficient public interest to support original jurisdiction and that the Jamestown Municipal Court has a duty to locate or reconstruct the missing disposition of Zundel's 1990 case. It granted mandamus in part and ordered further proceedings to conduct a diligent inquiry and maintain a record of the results. It denied declaratory relief because the record contained insufficient evidence to determine whether the case involved domestic violence or resulted in a firearm-disqualifying conviction.