VIGILE v. SAVA

Nos. 81 Civ. 7372 (RLC), 81 Civ. 7371 (RLC).

535 F.Supp. 1002 (1982)

Laissez-Moi VIGILE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Charles SAVA, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendant. Joseph BERTRAND and Pierre Baptiste, Plaintiffs, v. Charles SAVA, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Kevin Doyle, Deputy Assistant District Director of Detention and Deportation of the New York District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Immigration Law Clinic by Harriet Rabb and Susan D. Susman, New York Civil Liberties Union by Steven Shapiro, New York City, for plaintiffs Laissez-Moi Vigile, et al.

Mailman & Ruthizer, P.C. by Stanley Mailman and Arthur C. Helton, New York City, for plaintiffs Joseph Bertrand and Pierre Baptiste.

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y. by Thomas H. Belote, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., and Harvey J. Wolkoff, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, Steven R. Abrams, Trial Atty., Immigration and Naturalization Service, for defendants.


OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

These consolidated petitions for writ of habeas corpus were filed by eight Haitians who arrived in Florida between June and early July 1981. Along with 78 of their countrymen and women, petitioners were transferred from the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") Krome Avenue facility in Miami to the Service Processing Center ("SPC"), an immigration detention facility in Brooklyn, New York. They have been...

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