The Michigan Supreme Court decided Marion v Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (Docket No. 164298) on June 5, 2024.

The .pdf that was first released was created at 2:29 p.m.

Just like with lawyers and paralegals, sometimes an oversight is recognized after the file is submitted. And that happened here.

An updated .pdf file was created at 5:01 p.m. without fanfare and queued for release on June 6.

Adobe Acrobat’s “compare report” feature shows the correction.

Where the original opinion read ”is unlikely to move”, the corrected opinion now uses “will not or cannot get out of the way”.

The Supreme Court of the United States also corrects its decisions from time to time. In more recent years, SCOTUS has been adding to the Reporter’s Note whether and how any additional edits were made from the original slip opinion.

The SCOTUS Reporter’s Note practice is one that other courts may want to follow.

Corrections happen.