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HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE BENNETT

December 23, 2005

From a ruling issued yesterday by Judge Mark W. Bennett in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa:

Like the legendary Fawkes depicted in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, see Rowling, supra, at 320-22, the plaintiffs’ complaint has been born anew out of the ashes of its former existence. The plaintiffs’ third amended complaint sufficiently alleges facts demonstrating the existence of a RICO enterprise that is distinct from that inherent in a pattern of racketeering.

I hope this doesn't signal the introduction to federal juristiction of legal standards of the wizarding world:

a) torturing children for lying; b) utilizing a prison designed and staffed specifically to suck all life and hope out of the inmates; c) placing citizens in that prison without a hearing; d) allows the death penalty without a trial; e) allowing the powerful, rich or famous to control policy and practice; f) selective prosecution (the powerful go unpunished and the unpopular face trumped-up charges); g) conducting criminal trials without independent defense counsel; h) using truth serum to force confessions; i) maintaining constant surveillance over all citizens; j) allowing no elections whatsoever and no democratic lawmaking process; k) controlling the press.

Judge Bennett, may I withdraw my motion?

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