MEDVID BY MEDVID v. LAMBERT

Civ. A. No. 85-5150.

621 F.Supp. 575 (1985)

Myroslaw Wasylowycz MEDVID, by his next friends, Paraska Medvid, Jezie Sky, Maria Filipovic, Anne Kent, U.S. Senator Gordon J. Humphrey, U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley, and U.S. Representative Robert L. Livingston, Petitioner, v. David H. LAMBERT, Director, District 28, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; Alan Nelson, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Edwin Meese, Attorney General for the United States of America; George Schultz, Secretary of State of the United States of America; James Baker, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America; Rear Admiral Clyde T. Lusk, Jr., District Commander, 8th District, United States Coast Guard; and Captain Lindak, Captain of the Port of New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

November 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Quigley, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.

William F. Baity and Daniel S. Linhardt, Asst. U.S. Attys., New Orleans, La., for respondents.


ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in which the petitioners, as next friends on behalf of seaman Medvid, ask this Court to order the defendants to stop the departure of the SS Marshal Konev from leaving the territorial waters of the United States without first releasing seaman Medvid from the ship so that the defendants can present him before this...

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