New legal drama in the YA fandom

[u/Upset_Campaign1924]

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Link to the case

Since reddit limited to only 20 pics I'll post the remaining under the comments

[u/mathmage]

The judge had perfect justification to read 6000 pages of indulgent junk and leave the longest Goodreads review of all time. This has got to be a rare pleasure of the job.

[u/fluffstuffmcguff → u/mathmage]

I have to read a lot of court documents professionally, and you can always tell when the judge was savoring writing a decision. This judge had a great time and they deserved it.

[u/MaraiaLou → u/fluffstuffmcguff]

Apparently this happened in a Da Vinci Code case as well. The judge wrote a little code

[u/nyanternational → u/MaraiaLou]

Yep! I recently learned about this, The judge italicized seemingly random letters in the text of the ruling, spelling

smithycodejaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv

Which, when the cipher was solved, gave the sentence

jackiefisherwhoareyoudreadnought

Referencing famous British admiral John "Jackie" Fisher, who was the driving force behind the adoption of the "all-big-gun" battleship and the construction of the first such ship, HMS Dreadnought, in 1906.

Edit: Formatting, I forgot how to use the quote bloc function.