MEDVID BY MEDVID v. Lambert

ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in which the petitioners, as next friends on behalf of seaman Medvid, ask this Court to order the defendants to stop the departure of the SS Marshal Konev from leaving the territorial waters of the United States without first releasing seaman Medvid from the ship so that the defendants can present him before this Court in order to inquire into the voluntariness of his expressed desire to return to the Soviet Union.

Standing

This Court has doubts about the standing of the plaintiffs. Although in the…