From: http://www.foxnews.com/national/cubaboy/index.sml Supreme Court Denies Miami Relatives' Appeal Wednesday, June 28, 2000 Elian Gonzalez is going home. AP/Wide World Lazaro Gonzalez, front, Elian's great uncle, and some of the child's other Miami relatives are awaiting a Supreme Court decision as to the boy's fate The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied his Miami relatives' request for an emergency injunction to keep him in the United States and rejected a formal appeal for the 6-year-old to get an asylum hearing. The court's action was announced in a brief order, which ends a seven-month international custody battle. Wednesday's order, in its entirety, read: "The application for stay presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari (the appeal) is denied." The emergency request had been filed with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, but he referred it to the full court. Elian and his father reportedly planned to leave the United States later Wednesday. He can leave the country just after 4 p.m. ET Wednesday. That time marks the expiration of the order by the 11th Circuit Appeals Court requiring Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, to keep the boy in the U.S. Elian would be accompanied back home to Cuba by his family and an entourage of Cuban compatriots, including classmates who joined him here in April. Cuban officials said the departure plans were being coordinated by Gregory Craig, the lawyer for Juan Miguel. A Cuban Priority For President Fidel Castro, getting Elian out of the clutches of his powerful adversary has been a No. 1 priority. Elian has become a rallying point for anti-Castro sentiments in the United States, particularly in Miami's Cuban exile neighborhoods. He stayed with his Miami relatives until federal agents seized him on April 22 and turned him over to his father in Washington pending the court appeals. AP/Wide World Marisleysis Gonzalez, left, Elian's cousin, is among the family members fighting to keep the boy stateside "This case has been decided correctly. Elian Gonzalez has been returned to his father and is with his true family where he belongs," Juan Miguel said Tuesday in a court document submitted by Craig. On Monday, attorneys for the boy's Miami relatives asked Kennedy to block Elian's departure until the full Supreme Court could address the issue. Kennedy is responsible for dealing with cases from the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court, which ruled last week that Elian should be allowed to leave Wednesday. Lawyers for the Miami relatives have argued that a few weeks' delay in the long legal fight over the boy is a small cost in a case with stakes of such magnitude. All along, the Miami relatives have said the immigration service erred in not granting Elian the right to apply for political asylum. Immigration officials have consistently maintained that the desire of Elian's father to repatriate the boy to Cuba must be respected, a position backed by a succession of court rulings. Elian sparked an international custody case after being rescued last Thanksgiving Day by two fisherman off the Florida coast. He and two adults were the only survivors after their makeshift raft capsized two days into their voyage from Cuba to Florida. 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