On top of all the other reasons (spelled out in point 2.a of my Part 1 post) why it makes no sense to think that Lorie Smith or her attorneys concocted the apparently sham or prank request, it turns out—surprise, surprise—that the IP (Internet Protocol) address on the device that sent the request to Smith is located in San Francisco:
To be sure, the current location of the IP address does not prove its location on September 21, 2016. And different geolocation products on the IP Address Lookup site I used generate somewhat different results: six in northern California, two in New Jersey. But none are in Denver, where Smith has long lived and worked.