The code puzzle in the Da Vinci code case Tom Smith

Judges will be judges, so it is not too surprizing that Judge Smith, the English judge who presided over the recent Da Vinci Code / Holy Blood, Holy Grail copyright infringment case in London, should have embedded in his opinion a coded message, to test whether any lawyer, cryptographer, or lawyer-cryptographer is smart enough to figure it out.  Apparently, the response has not been as avid as he hoped, so he has dropped some rather broad clues, which you see if you read the NYT article linked to above.

C’mon American blawgosphere devotees.  Let show this clever English jurist that he cannot defeat the little grey cells of the Legal Army of Davids (seems I’ve heard that phrase before somewhere . . . well, no matter).  This may be a perfect challenge for the global blog-o-mind.  Do I have a link to the opinion?  No I do not.  That would be cheating.  If you can’t even find the opinion, somehow I doubt you will crack the code.  But I will post it when I find it myself.

A loyal reader provides a link to the opinion.  Have at it, junior code breakers!