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UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN BAR ASSOC. v. SHULTZ

Civ. A. No. 85-3487-LFO.

695 F.Supp. 33 (1988)

UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN BAR ASSOC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. George P. SHULTZ, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 31, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Fylypovych, Harvey, Pennington, Herting & Renneisen, Ltd., Philadelphia, Pa., Michael Waris, Jr., Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Myroslav Medvid, a Ukrainian merchant seaman, jumped off a Soviet grain vessel, the Marshall Konev, anchored on the Mississippi River on the evening of October 24, 1985, and sought political asylum in the United States. His efforts to remain in the United States attracted attention almost immediately. In particular, individual plaintiffs Julian Kulas and Orest Jejna, both members of the plaintiff Ukrainian-American...

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