The act of fail, to blunder, to make a snafu, or catastrophe.
Conceivably it was a bureaucratic snafu.
It was another bureaucratic snafu.
Her internship was cut short because of a technical snafu.
They also issued a series of public statements aiming to undercut S&P's analysis, trumpeting a dramatic, last-minute, $2 trillion snafu in the firm's calculations.
It may be the judge's fault. It may be a lawyer's fault. It may be a procedural snafu.