Details Matter

The blog is back after a unplanned outage due to a technical gremlin.  That problem inspired this post.  I often use the phrase details matter, even on this blog.  A California appellate court found a creative way to say it and I encourage everyone to keep it in mind.

In their rock-and-roll standard, “End of the Innocence,” Bruce Hornsby and Don Henley note that “The lawyers dwell on small details.” That’s true. We have to. The devil isn’t the only resident in the details; sometimes truth and fairness lodge there as well.

In this case, we address a “detail” that was lost or hidden and resulted in what we consider an injustice. Fortunately, as is usually the case, painstaking attention to other small details enables us to correct this injustice. If you dwell on small details with an eye to fairness, the law works well.

Womack v. Lovell, 188 Cal. Rptr. 3d 471, 472 (Ct. App. 2015).