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HAITIAN REFUGEE CENTER, INC. v. GRACEY

Civ. A. No. 84-2270.

600 F.Supp. 1396 (1985)

HAITIAN REFUGEE CENTER, INC. et al., Plaintiffs, v. Admiral James S. GRACEY, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 10, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Gordon, Washington D.C., Marvin E. Frankel, Arthur C. Helton and Jo. R. Backer, Lawyers Committee for Intern. Human Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs; Ira J. Kurzban, Miami, Fla., of counsel.

Lauri Steven Filppu, Mark C. Walters, David V. Bernal, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice. Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The complaint in this case raises several challenges to the interdiction by United States officials of visaless aliens on the high seas. This program of interdiction was ordered by the President in 1981. The plaintiffs herein are the Haitian Refugee Center ("HRC"), a nonprofit membership corporation located in Miami, Florida, and two of its members. The defendants are the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard...

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