Legal Opinion
Louis v. Nelson
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided June 18, 1982No. 81-1260-CIV-EPSPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION 1
SPELLMAN, District Judge.
“Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Carl Sandburg
This case has been described by the Government as nothing more than an attack on the proper constitutional effort of the United States to protect its borders from invasion. It has been described by the Plaintiffs as the worse possible case of the Government of the United States engaging in invidious discrimination.
The detention policy giving rise to this lawsuit has been described by some in the news media as a moral disgrace and by others as simply…
2Cases cited128 opinions
- Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. VolpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Abbott Laboratories v. GardnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Marie Lucie Jean v. Alan C. NelsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Jean v. NelsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Jean v. NelsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Lawton Chiles, Jr., Bob Martinez, Metropolitan Dade County, Intervenors-Appellants v. Richard Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
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