Now It's Official.

"Typos happen."

(Gunn v. Mariners Church, Inc. (June 21, 2005) Fourth District, Division Three, Case No. G032304 [2005 WL 1464215].)

If you need to garner support for this proposition, you can now cite (but not in court papers) this California appellate court order modifying Justice Sills' dissenting opinion regarding Mariners' Church in Irvine, California.

Here's the context in which "typos happen" arose. "'Surely, if the free exercise clause means anything, it means that a church should be put in the position where it must denounce its own theology using the pejorative language selected by a fired minister!' should, of course, be modified to say: 'Surely, if the free exercise clause means anything, it means that a church should not be put in the position where it must denounce its own theology using the pejorative language selected by a fired minister!' Typos happen. " (Emphasis supplied.)