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...Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives have - surprise, surprise - chosen the slow road for their appeal to keep the boy in the U.S., and that's just fine with Fidel Castro. Lawyers acting for great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review their decision upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the six-year-old couldn't apply for asylum in the U.S. against the wishes of his father. That request is likely to be a prelude to the eventual Supreme Court appeal that the Miami relatives have long vowed they...
...those decisions can be defended with a straight face. Both the Federal Court and a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit appeals court have determined that it was reasonable for the INS to interpret applicable immigration statutes to preclude hearing the asylum application filed for six-year-old Elian by his great-uncle, against the express wishes of his father, and the smart money is against that decision being reversed by either a full panel of the 11th Circuit or by the high court. But while Elian's troubled sojourn in the U.S. grinds through its seventh month, Castro...
MARISLEYSIS GONZALEZ Loses latest and (almost) last appeal to keep Elian. Get a life, girl; your 15 minutes...
Perhaps this is not surprising, just months after the sordid conclusion of the Monica S. Lewinsky trial and the Elian Gonzalez circus. Washington is a little tattered around the edges right now, and students notice...
...Thursday's decision, of course, will bring Elian back into the headlines, a sight for the sore eyes of the nation's news editors in an otherwise dolorous early-summer news cycle. But whether this marks the saga's denouement depends on the content of that decision, and the response of the Supreme Court judges on whose shiny table the Elian folder is bound to eventually land. The only outcome that would allow Juan Miguel to take Elian home as soon as possible would be if no higher court extends the injunction that has obliged him to stay. In other...