In court papers, the government said the Defense Department inadvertently failed to tell the command at Guantánamo Bay to videotape the proceedings.
A succession of ministers either knowingly or inadvertently failed to distinguish between government debt and the annual deficit.
In an amended return, Paul Ryan, the vice presidential candidate, told the I.R.S. he and his wife had "inadvertently" failed to report $61,122 in income from 2011.
Late last year, the association said it had inadvertently failed to increase payouts on certain bets from Sept. 15, 2010, to Dec. 21, 2011, as required by state law.
At this point, it is not clear whether the researchers inadvertently failed to comply with reporting rules or consciously sought to hide their sizable incomes from drug companies.
In the documents, company officials apologized to federal regulators for not having mentioned the type of casing they were using earlier, adding that they had "inadvertently" failed to include it.
Online one day, Dr. Turner inadvertently failed to limit his search to prewar buildings, and was intrigued when something different came up — a postwar studio, circa 1964, in a building with a doorman and an elevator on East 83rd Street.
J. Gerald Hebert, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said Mr. Abbott had agreed to revise his prosecution manual to avoid charges against witnesses who inadvertently failed to sign the outside of an envelope of the mail-in ballot, as the law requires.
In my review of Sue Miller's novel "Lost in the Forest" (May 1), I inadvertently failed to acknowledge Joan Gould for the observation that Anne Tyler's "Ladder of Years" is inspired in part by the story of the seal wife.
