The defendant’s name, at least, had an infamous history.

It hearkens back to ancient Greece where an Athenian legislator formulated a legal code so harsh that his name became the root of an adjective—”draconian.” And for millions of J.K. Rowling fans, it is the name of Harry Potter’s “perpetually maleficent rival,” Draco Lucius Malfoy, noted Circuit Judge Robin Rosenbaum in an opinion released Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit