MIAMI (CNN) -- The judge in the Elian Gonzalez case has reported he will not rule
                  this weekend.

                  U.S. District Judge Michael Moore has heard arguments on whether to uphold a
                  U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service decision to reunite the boy with his father in
                  Cuba or to give the 6-year-old a political asylum.

                  The court battle began more than three months after the boy was rescued at sea,
                  found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast in late November.

                  His mother and 10 others drowned after their boat en route from Cuba to the United
                  States capsized.

                  The lawsuit was filed by Lazaro Gonzalez, Elian's great uncle in Miami who
                  has temporary custody of the boy and wants him to stay.

                  The U.S. government has argued the boy is too young to seek political asylum,
                  and maintains the earlier INS ruling that the boy's father is the only legal
                  authority to speak on the boy's behalf on immigration matters.

                  The boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, has insisted his son be returned to his Cuba home.

                  One of the boy's other great uncles, Manuel Gonzalez, has petitioned the court for custody.
                  That great uncle favors returning Elian to his father in Cuba.