A New Jersey appeals court has ordered a law firm based in South Jersey and Pennsylvania to refund $1,250 it charged a former partner who asked to be taken out of its promotional videos, but the judges had less sympathy for the lawyer’s request to delete a scene depicting the back of his head, saying the court does not involve itself in “trifles.”

The Superior Court’s Appellate Division said the firm can’t stick its former partner with a portion of the cost of removing his name and likeness from a marketing video, but also found the departing lawyer’s right to have his image scrubbed from his former firm’s marketing videos does not extend to one offering only a glimpse of the back of his head.