FILE PHOTO 08MAR00 - Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez peers through the front gate of his Miami relative's home March 8 before heading off to school. A U.S. judge March 21 dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez, a key step toward sending the 6-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor back to his father in Cuba. U.S. District Judge Michael Moore ruled that he had jurisdiction in the lawsuit and that the family had standing to file the lawsuit, but dismissed the suit on the merits of the claims, a court official said.

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