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A judge with a sense of fun!

04/28/2006 10:27 AM

You may recall that novelist Dan Brown's publisher, Random House was sued recently in London for plagarism in his novel "The DaVinci Code" (great book, by the way). Judge Peter Smith, who heard the case, found that there was in fact no plagarism.

Well the judge issued his formal written ruling yesterday, and all was well until the legal community noticed that seemingly random letters in the judge's document were italicized. It turns out that the letters were the key to the judge's own little code. According to one London attorney no one in the legal community got any work done today. Everyone was busy solving the code. There's an article in the Washington Post

I love it when people inject a little fun into the usually dry world of business and government.

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Another Infringement?

04/30/2006 2:15 PM

I wonder if Judge Peter Smith will be sued for using knowledge gained by reading the books written by the plaintiffs and/or the defendant in the case for which he wrote his opinion. ;-o

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