> I conclude it must be someone who only had access to a stapled, printed copy of the draft opinion. (If the person had access to the underlying digital file, they wouldn’t have printed & stapled it just to unstaple it.)
That's precisely why, if I were the one who did this, I would have printed, stapled, stressed, and finally unstapled the pages before re-scanning them.
That's precisely why, if I were the one who did this, I would have printed, stapled, stressed, and finally unstapled the pages before re-scanning them.