{"value"=>"<p>The series contains materials related to the various Haitian refugee cases Gollobin participated in (either as a litigator or strategist) throughout the seventies and eighties. Included in this series are memos, motions, briefs, orders, legal research and other documents relevant to case litigation. Asylum affidavits from Ketley Jean-Baptiste v. USA, Marie Pierre v. USA, and Marie Sannon v. USA are located in the Affidavits series. Among the most defining cases in the collection is Haitian Refugee Center v. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, in which Judge James Lawrence King opined that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had violated due process when processing Haitian asylum requests; additionally, Judge King acknowledged the extent of human rights violations in Haiti, thus affirming that Haitians were justified in their asylum claims. Haitian Refugee Center v. Attorney General William S. Smith was also successful, as it won a permanent injunction reversing the INS's denial of asylum to over 5,000 Haitian refugees and prohibited their deportation from the U. S. to Haiti; federal legislation later granted class members permanent resident status.</p> <p>The series also contains correspondence between members of the Haitian legal defense team who were located in New York, California, Washington, D. C., and Florida. The geographical diversity of the legal team made regular communication paramount to success, as the Cases series shows.</p>"}