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choice about it.
 
THE COURT: Okay. All right.
 
MR. POPE: I think they have considered
themselves to be bound by the order and have conducted
themselves as if they were bound by the order.
 
THE COURT: Now that we’ve got that on the
record. Okay. All right. Then do you want to add
anything else?
 
MR. MERRETT: I would simply point out that you
don’t become a party to the lawsuit by saying that you like
the outcome and wish to be bound by it. The Church is not
a party to the lawsuit. It never has been. It hasn’t
moved to intervene.
I mean, I understand that there is a bit
 
of -- what’s the word I’m looking for -- it’s not de us te
us machima. The hand at the top of the marionette strings
may have been revealed today, but I think as a matter of
absolute propriety and as a matter of procedural
correctness and as a matter of fact, the Church of
Scientology is not now and never has been a party to the
case and is not entitled to participate as though it were a
party not having formally moved to intervene.
 
MR. POPE: Well, Your Honor, Mr. Shaw is not
going to be a witness in this proceeding. He’s simply
sitting up here at the counsel table next to me. I may

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