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U.S. v. Von HARTEN

Nos. 86-5150, 86-5151 and 86-5164.

825 F.2d 1493 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Harold L. Von HARTEN, Defendant-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Earl WIDENER, Defendant-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John FERNANDEZ and Ray Wesley Vaughn, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty., Robert Kendall, Jr., Asst. Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Elizabeth Ruf Stein, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Linda Collins Hertz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Susan L. Kamlet, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Diane Tolbert Covan, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, Senior District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

These three consolidated cases arise out of the "Freedom Flotilla" of the summer of 1980 in which more than 100,000 Cuban nationals were evacuated from Cuba to the United States. See generally Lyden v. Howerton, 783 F.2d 1554, 1556 (11th Cir.1986); Pollgreen v. Morris, 770 F.2d 1536, 1538-40 (11th Cir.1985). The defendants in these cases operated privately-owned...

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