The High Court judge who ordered the removal of the original page, Mr Justice McCloskey, held that the contents of the original version amounted to prima facie harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.
Mr Mountney then set about producing a commemorative postcard to mark the visit but the borough council deemed it distasteful and ordered Mr Mountney to surrender the page with the signature so it could be displayed at Newark Town Hall.
MANASSAS, Virginia (CNN) -- A Virginia judge ordered prosecutors to review a 23-page document containing witness statements in the Washington-area sniper investigation Tuesday and turn over any excerpts that could aid the defense of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad.
"We ordered Congressman Foley to cease all contact with this former House page to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, " Shimkus said in a statement Friday.
The first is a summary of the White House review, which is that declassified document that I spoke of a second ago, and secondly, a memo, three-page memo, signed just a little while ago by the President on corrective actions that have been ordered.