The seventh circuit court of appeals decides Polovchak v. Meese, declaring as unlawful the Immigration and Naturalization Service issuance of a Departure Control Order in the case of Walter Polovchak, a teenage Ukrainian immigrant requesting political asylum; and orders a full trial to be conducted to decide his custody status before his eighteenth birthday (22 days away).
[restored 9/5/2025]
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Authority:
Article IX of Amendment
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References:
Walter Polovchak, and Kevin Klose, Freedom’s Child: A Courageous Teenager’s Story of Fleeing His Parents and the Soviet Union to Live in America, (New York: Random House, 1988), 230.
Polovchak v. Meese – Wikipedia
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