PECHTER v. LYONS

77 Civ. 5190.

441 F.Supp. 115 (1977)

Bonnie PECHTER, Larraine Schumsky, Irving Greenberg, Lucy Dawidowicz, Henry Feingold, Jane Gerber and Robert Rosen, Plaintiffs, v. Francis J. LYONS, Immigration Judge, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

November 8, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union by David Rudenstine, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U.S. Atty. for the Southern Dist. of New York by Thomas H. Belote, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, for Immigration and Naturalization Service.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are members of the general public. Defendant Lyons is a United States Immigration Judge. This proceeding concerns the right of the public to attend an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deportation hearing; the issue is whether the immigration judge presiding over the deportation hearing of one Boleslavs Maikovskis acted within his discretion in...

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