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Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions 397  Slashdot contributor
Bennett Haselton writes in to say "The last few times that I
sued a spammer in Washington Small Claims Court, I filed a
"booby-trapped" written legal brief with the judge, about four
pages long, with the second and third pages stuck together in
the middle. I made these by poking through those two pages with
a thumbtack, then running a tiny sliver of paper through the
holes and gluing it to either page with white-out. The idea was
that after the judge made their decision, I could go to the
courthouse and look at the file to see if the judge read the
brief or not, since if they turned the pages to read it, the
tiny sliver of paper would break. To make a long story short, I
tried this with 6 different judges, and in 3 out of 6 cases, the
judge rejected the motion without reading it." The rest of this
bizarre story follows. It's worth the read. Booby Trapped Brief
An example of a "booby-tr