GONZALEZ EX REL. GONZALEZ v. RENO

No. 00-206-CIV.

86 F.Supp.2d 1167 (2000)

Elian GONZALEZ, a minor, By and Through Lazaro GONZALEZ, as next friend, or, alternatively, as temporary legal custodian, Plaintiff, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States; Doris Meissner, Commissioner, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; Robert Wallis, District Director, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; and United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; and United States Department of Justice, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida, Miami Division.

March 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kendall Brindley Coffey, Miami, FL, Jose R. Garcia-Pedrosa, Ruden McClosky Smith Schuster and Russell, Miami, FL, Spencer Eig, Miami Beach, FL, Barbara Lagoa, Eliot Pedrosa, Judd J. Goldberg, Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen, Miami, FL, Linda Marguerite Osberg-Braun, Roger Alfred Bernstein, Hackley Bernstein & Osberg-Braun, Aventura, FL, for Plaintiff.

Thomas E. Scott, U.S. Atty., U.S. Atty's Office, Dexter Lee, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, FL, Thomas W. Hussey, Director, David J. Kline, Deputy Director, David W. Ogden, Acting Asst. Atty Gen., Patricia L. Maher, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Howard, Sr. Litigation Counsel, Jocelyn M. Wright, Sr. Litigation Counsel, Russell J.E. Verby, John P. Moran, Michelle Gorden, Trial Attys., Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendant.


K. MICHAEL MOORE, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE came before the Court upon Defendants' Motion To Dismiss or Alternative Motion for Summary Judgment (DE # 22, filed January 26, 2000).1

UPON CONSIDERATION of the Motion and the pertinent portions of the record, and after a hearing on March 9, 2000, at which the parties presented oral argument, the Court enters this Order, which is outlined below as follows.

The Order is presented...

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