I am always surprised when something I believed to be true turns out not to be–that Abner Doubleday invented baseball comes to mind. I’m still being surprised.

For example, I learned recently not only that many state corporation statutes do not require a non-profit organization to maintain minutes of board meetings, but also that the failure to keep those minutes is not a serious legal problem. It turns out the ordinary statutory requirement “to maintain good and correct records” does not necessarily include the detailed minutes of board and committee meetings.