Legal Opinion
Filimonovic v. District Director, U.S.I.N.S.
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided September 27, 1995No. Civ. A. No. 95-K-1862Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
KANE, Senior District Judge.
This habeas corpus petition came before me for hearing on September 19,1995. Petitioner Ljubisa Filimonovic, an ethnic Serb from a town near Belgrade in former Yugoslavia, faces immediate deportation to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The INS defines the FRY as the Serbia-Montenegro region of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Belgrade is in the FRY.
Because the FRY is distinct from the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and is not presently part of the brutal civil war being waged there, the INS…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ramon Becerra-Jimenez v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1987
- Warjina S. Sarkis Bothyo v. A.D. Moyer, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
- Moises Ponce-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Ljubisa Filimonovic v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994