JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: There has been new court action in the Elian Gonzalez case. CNN's Kate Snow joins us near where the boy and his father are staying in rural Maryland -- Kate.</s>KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Judy, for the first time in this case since the case began, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the father of Elian has inserted himself legally into the legal proceedings. He filed an emergency motion this afternoon with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. In that motion, Juan Miguel Gonzalez says that he should be the one to speak for his son and that Lazaro Gonzalez, the great- uncle from Miami, should have no right to speak for the boy. Lazaro Gonzalez had appealed yesterday along with some of the other Miami relatives for certain issues, certain access to the boy, they also wanted to deny the boy access to any Cuban officials or Cuban doctors. Well, today's motion from Juan Miguel Gonzalez goes on to refute very strongly in strong language all of those requests made by the Miami relatives. In fact, they say that the access requested to the boy is unwarranted. They say it would be unhealthy for Elian Gonzalez to meet with those Miami relatives. They go on to quote a psychiatrist who examined Elian yesterday morning for about two and a half hours, that government-appointed psychiatrist had found that it would be unwise for the boy to see his Miami relatives at this point given all of their emotion. And Juan Miguel Gonzalez says that the access to the child if the Miami relatives were to meet his son, he says that would be harmful to the child. Now, Juan Miguel Gonzalez remains here at the plantation behind me just across the river with his son, very little access to him as far as the media is concerned. We don't have much information about what they're doing, but we do know they have a lot of space and are going to be spending quite a bit of time here possibly with some visitors later tonight from Cuba -- Judy.</s>WOODRUFF: All right, Kate Snow reporting from the Wye River Plantation in Maryland.
Elian Gonzalez Case: Father Files Court Motion Saying He's Only One Who Can Speak For His Son