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Alonso-Martinez v. Meissner

1:81-cv-02233 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 1981

Closed Date: 1983

On September 15, 1981, two Cuban nationals who were confined in at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They claimed that their applications for asylum had been unreasonably delayed.On October 16, 1981, the District Court (Thomas A. Flannery) denied their petition. The District Court cited the arrival of approximately 125,000 Cubans in Key West, Florida, in mid-1980 ("Freedom Flotill…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh

3:85-cv-03255 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 1985

Closed Date: May 24, 1999

On July 7, 1985, religious and refugee service organizations and two individual undocumented aliens brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against various government officials, including the United States Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, challenging prosecutions for harboring undocumented aliens. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants' application of immigration laws violated the First Amendment and equal protection. The plaintiff…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Betrand v. Sava

1:81-cv-07371 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 25, 1981

Closed Date: 1982

In 1982, Haitians incarcerated in an immigration detention facility in New York, pending their applications for political asylum, filed petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the INS' parole policy as it was applied to Haitians. In two separate cases, the District Court (Judge Robert L. Carter) certified a proposed class of Haitians and granted writs of habeas corpus, finding that the I…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bondy v. Sullivan

3:90-cv-00223 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 1990

Closed Date: 1993

On January 22, 1990, plaintiff Herbert Bondy, a Jew who fled his native Austria in 1938 to avoid Nazi prosecution, filed a class action in the U.S. District Court California Northern District, seeking to prevent the government from including Austrian reparations payments made to victims of Nazi persecution in calculating his eligibility for Supplemental Security Income. Plaintiff was represented by attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and Legal Assistance to the Elderly Inc.T…
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Cuban American Bar Ass'n., Inc. v. Christopher

1:94-cv-02183 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1994

Closed Date: 1995

On October 23, 1994, the Cuban American Bar Association, Inc., Cuban Legal Alliance, Inc., and Due Process, Inc. and several Cuban detainees being held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay under a grant of safe haven, filed a class action complaint the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, challenging the detainees' denial of access to attorneys. Plaintiff sought an injunction to prevent the government from denying Cuban rights organizations reasonable access t…
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Haitian Centers Council, Inc. v. McNary

1:92-cv-01258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 1994

On March 18, 1992, this action was brought by various organizations and Haitian aliens in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, challenging procedures of the Coast Guard interdiction program with respect to Haitian refugees. Under the program, Haitians that fled their country were apprehended by the Coast Guard and detained on board Coast Guard cutters and at Guantánamo Bay. The INS interviewed the Haitian refugees and those found to have a "credible" fear of pe…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garcia-Mir v. Civiletti

5:81-cv-04007 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1981

Closed Date: 1981

In 1980, a group of Cuban nationals detained in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas after being denied political asylum filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas to challenge the conditions and circumstances of their continued detention. Plaintiffs requested declaratory and injunctive relief and moved for class certification Plaintiffs were subsequently transferred to a federal facility in Georgia. The government moved for dismissal of the case or, in th…
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Haitian Refugee Ctr. v. Smith

1:79-cv-02086 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 9, 1979

Closed Date: 1986

On May 9, 1979, the Haitian Refugee Center and eight individual Haitians brought a class action on behalf of over 4,000 Haitians in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, challenging the legality of the "Haitian Program." This program was instituted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the summer of 1978 to accelerate the processing of applications made by Haitians for asylum. Haitians fled their country and feared persecution, imprisonment and death if…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jean v. Nelson

1:81-cv-01260 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 10, 1981

Closed Date: 1990

In June 1981, a class of undocumented and incarcerated aliens from Haiti brought suit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and declaratory and injunctive relief. Petitioners claimed that the INS was conducting mass exclusion hearings which were being held without counsel and was unlawfully denying petitioners parole. The suit came as a result of a policy…
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Yi v. Maugans

1:93-cv-01702 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 1993

Closed Date: 2002

The "Golden Venture cases" involve the plight of several hundred Chinese undocumented aliens that were smuggled into the U.S. aboard a broken down cargo ship, the Golden Venture. The aliens each paid "snakeheads" (smugglers) up to $40,000 to gain passage on the Golden Venture, which sailed for 3 months before it ran aground in New York Harbor in June 1993. When the ship crashed, the aliens jumped overboard and tried to swim ashore. Several aliens drowned and several hundred were arrested and…