Listen… typos happen. I get that. After all, I churn content daily for a blog, so I am well aware that that these small mistakes often happen in the rush to publish. Sometimes your brain just moves faster than you can type, or you mishit a key, or a sentence gets badly mangled in the self-editing process. All of which is to say, I really do sympathize and acknowledge that mistakes shouldn’t be a big deal.
But…
But when a publication is THE authority on legal citations that the law school perfectionist/overachievers known as gunners worship, well, then we’re going to take notice. After all it isn’t the first (or likely last) time Above the Law has documented a slew of errors in these pages. There’s just something so satisfying about seeing a a mistake in the tome that causes so much angst in law students. So we just had to post about it when an eagle-eyed tipster sent us a picture of a clear error in the Bluebook.
Now, is it a giant mistake? No, of course not. But it still elicits a smirk when I see it.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).