Legal Opinion
Gaitan-Campanioni v. Thornburgh
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided November 7, 1991No. 9:90 CV 157PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JUSTICE, District Judge.
Applicants, Ebel Gaitan-Campanioni, Carlos Alberto Prado Tórnente, and Victor Kessel Rodriguez (collectively, “applicants”) are Mariel Cubans who arrived on the Freedom Flotilla of Cubans to this country in early 1980. Currently, they are being detained in federal prison, by order of the Attorney General, pending their return to Cuba. Cuba, however, refuses to take them back. Applicants have applied for writs of habeas corpus, challenging their detention by the Attorney General on the grounds, among others, that the Attorney General lacks statutory…
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