In the Ruby Moot, Docket No. 1 — Mary Lee Sharks v. The Composition Layer is a work of creative prose by Lee Sharks, filed 12 June 2026.
It constitutes a forum: r.30 THE RUBY MOOT, A Court of Record for the Semantic Commons, with its own DOI, and hears its first docket — a petitioner named for a tracked white shark against the composition layer itself. Appearing for the petitioner: Gerald, Foreman, Dolphindiana Local 1.
Suing the composition layer is the archive's grievance given a form that can hold evidence. A court of record admits exhibits, assigns dockets and produces findings, and the archive files empirical studies into it (#1212) rather than only publishing them. The Moot is institutional fiction with a procedural spine — the same move as the MRA incident reports and the Afterlife Archive, applied to the question of what remedy exists when a machine erases a provenance.