In re Grason

OPINION

MARY P. GORMAN, Chief Judge.

An old adage warns that bad facts make bad law.1 The theory behind the adage is that when the equities in a case favor a result that is contrary to a strict reading of the law, a court may be inclined to carve out an exception to the law or develop a strained interpretation of the law to reach the desired equitable result. But, when the law has been manipulated to reach the desired result in one case, the precedent set may result in undesired results in other cases. Thus, courts are cautioned that yielding to the equities in a case, despite contrary law, may…