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'''Drafting errors''' sometimes occur in [[legislation]]. Usually these errors are minor, such as incorrect punctuation or capitalization, and the meaning is unaffected. But sometimes the matter is more substantive.
Commonly, the error will have something to do with cross-referencing of statutes. For instance, the U.S. statutes pertaining to probation had a drafting error which caused the section about revocation of probation for failing to submit to a drug test to incorrectly reference a section about domestic violence.<ref>{{cite court|litigants=United States v. Coatoam|date=2001|court=CA6 Ohio|vol=245|reporter=F3d|opinion=553|url=http://openjurist.org/245/f3d/553/united-states-of-america-v-walter-coatoam}}</ref> By clerical error, the law also omitted an accurate reference to community confinement.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.ussc.gov/2004guid/7b1_3.htm|title=USSG 7B1.3, Footnote to Application Note 5|year=2004|access-date=March 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112101517/http://www.ussc.gov/2004guid/7b1_3.htm|archive-date=January 12, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite court|litigants=United States v. D'Amario|date=2005|court=CA1 RI|vol=412|reporter=F3d|opinion=253}}</ref> However, in both cases, courts upheld Congressional intent.
Sometimes courts refuse to apply [[legislative intent]] that conflicts with the text of the law, as in the case of the [[Virginia General Assembly]] accidentally repealing the exemptions of almost all industries from the statute requiring employers to allow employees not to work on [[Christian Sabbath|Sabbath]]. It was necessary for the legislature to re-assemble for a special session to correct the error.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/14/us/virginia-lawmakers-trudge-back-to-scene-to-repair-error.html?pagewanted=1|title=Virginia Lawmakers Trudge Back to Scene to Repair Error|author=Bacon, Lisa|date=July 14, 2004|publisher=New York Times}}</ref>
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