VETERANS PEACE CONVOY, INC. v. SCHULTZ

Civ. A. No. L-88-47.

722 F.Supp. 1425 (1988)

VETERANS PEACE CONVOY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. George P. SCHULTZ, Secretary of State, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Laredo Division.

September 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Simons, Atty. in Charge, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Israel M. Reyna, Javier Riojas, William H. Beardall, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., Laredo, Tex., Margaret Burkhart, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., Edinburg, Tex., Susan Finkelstein, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs Diaz, Lopez and Centro Aztlan.

Margaret L. Ratner, Michael Ratner, David Cole, Jules Lobel, New York City, for Veterans Peace Convoy.

Steve Somerstein, Somerstein & Pike, New York City, for plaintiffs Livesey and Muskat.

Stephen A. Dixon, Baton Rouge, La., Ricardo De Anda, Laredo, Tex., for plaintiffs Pace and Nelson.

John R. Tyler, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., Sarah R. Tunnell, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAZEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs originally sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring Defendants, as agents of the United States Government, to release four vehicles allegedly seized unlawfully on June 15, 1988 and to permit export of these and other convoy vehicles to Nicaragua for humanitarian purposes. The four vehicles have since been released. Plaintiffs have now filed a motion for summary judgment. In a brief filed September...

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