<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Alright - so the picture is funny, the article is quite scary. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">July 20, 2007, 4:33 pm</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 19.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B>He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named</B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Posted by Peter Lattman</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR><IMG src="cid:A8AD46AA-6866-4058-A455-08DBA0035106@local"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">The frenzy over Harry Potter’s latest has </FONT><A href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118493224469472948.html?mod=home_whats_news_us"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0027FF">reached </FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">a crescendo. Way back, when to see what all the fuss was about, we read the first installment and enjoyed it, but haven’t read the others. We do, however, fondly recall Lord Voldemort, aka “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” What ever came of that evil guy? We’re not sure, but there is another “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” lurking among us. His name (at least according to two lawyers): George W. Bush.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Here’s the backstory, courtesy of the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20070718_Monica_Yant_Kinney___President__What_president_.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0027FF">Philadelphia Inquirer </FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">and the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1184869654447"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0027FF">Legal Intelligencer</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. Michael Laffey and Robert DiDomenicis of Holsten & Associates are defending the township of Upper Darby in a civil rights lawsuit brought by Harold Lischner, who says he was falsely arrested in 2003 for displaying an anti-war sign at a President Bush election stop.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Lischner held a sign that said “Withdraw our troops from Iraq. Give the $87 billion to the Iraqi governing council and U.N. for immediate relief and repair of the destruction we caused.” The lawyers for the town asked </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.duanemorris.com/pressreleases/pressrelease1598.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0027FF">Judge Gene Pratter </FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">to prohibit the Lischner from mentioning President Bush in his testimony, and limit him to testifying that “he displayed a sign in opposition of a ‘presidential candidate.’”</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The motion reportedly said Bush has “the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation,” and that 62% of Americans believe that Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq shows he is “stubborn and unwilling to admit his mistakes.” They say that “the identity of George W. Bush has no relevance to plaintiff’s claim and should not be admitted” and that any “probative value” of Bush’s identity “is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to defendant.” Mentioning Bush “in and of itself, presents the danger that the jury will favor plaintiff,” they said.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Nice try, ruled Judge Pratter in this </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://wsj.com/public/resources/documents/bushcase.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0027FF">23-page opinion</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. Judge Pratter found Bush’s identity “relevant” to the case. “The facts that the political candidate was not only a candidate for arguably the most important office in our government, but also the current president participating in a campaign for re-election” are important to the facts of the case, ruled the judge. And the content of the sign is also germane, the judge ruled, because it indicates the sign wasn’t “aimed at inciting violence.”</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">“There is no requirement that trials be made up of the blandest theories, facts and arguments available,” concluded the judge. “By the same token . . . trials are not stages set for sensationalism, and the Court intends to guard against this trial becoming a platform for public polemics.” A trial is set for later this month.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/07/20/president-bush-and-voldemort-he-who-must-not-be-named/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Permalink </SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">| Trackback URL: <A href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/07/20/president-bush-and-voldemort-he-who-must-not-be-named/trackback/">http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/07/20/president-bush-and-voldemort-he-who-must-not-be-named/trackback/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><BR></BODY></HTML>