MEDVID BY JEZIERSKY v. NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPT.

Civ. A. No. 85-5065.

621 F.Supp. 503 (1985)

Myroslaw Wasylowycz MEDVID by His Next Friends, Paraska Medvid JEZIERSKY (Aunt), Maria Filipovic (Cousin), and Anne Kent (Cousin) v. NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT; Warren G. Woodfork, Jr., Chief, New Orleans Police Department; New Orleans Harbor Police; United States Border Patrol; Jesse Tabor, Commander, U.S. Border Patrol; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; David H. Lambert, Director District 28, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; Universal Shipping Agencies, Inc.; Tim Maloz; Michael Slad; Port Ship Service, Inc.; Raymond Gutherie; Seaman A; Seaman B; Seaman C; Seaman D; Seaman E; Seaman F; Seaman G; "Boris Doe", Master, SS Marshal Konev; U.S. Customs Service; J. Robert Grimes, Regional Commissioner, Region 5, U.S. Customs Service; Rear Adm. Clyde T. Lusk, Jr., District Commander, 8th District, U.S. Coast Guard; Captain Lindak, Captain of the Port of New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard, Bd. of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

November 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian E. Kulas, Chicago, Ill., Henry Mark Holzer, Brooklyn, N.Y., Michael S. Wolf, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs.

William Baity, U.S. Atty., Daniel Lindhardt, U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants.


ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is an application for a temporary restraining order on behalf of the now-celebrated drama involving the Ukrainian seaman, Myroslaw Medvid, by his next friends. It was heard on November 6, 1985. The temporary restraining order asks this Court to order the defendants, various local and national governmental agencies among others, to prevent the removal of seaman Medvid from the jurisdiction of this...

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