WASHINGTON -- A federal judge refused to block the return of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, dealing another setback to the efforts of his Miami relatives to win asylum for the boy.

U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed a lawsuit filed in January by Elian's Miami relatives seeking a political asylum hearing, and he upheld a decision by U.S. immigration officials that the boy be sent home. The judge ruled the attorney general has "discretion" about whether to grant asylum and to decide who speaks for a minor in immigration...