No. 21-1060

Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-01-31
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention
Key Terms:
Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-04-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habitual residence has arisen?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires the return of not only a child who was wrongfully removed from the child’s habitual residence, but also a child who was wrongfully retained in a country other than that child’s habitual residence. The question presented is: In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habitual residence has arisen?

Docket Entries

2022-04-04
Petition DENIED.
2022-03-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
2022-03-11
Reply of petitioner Heath Douglas filed.
2022-03-02
Brief of respondent Nancy Summers Douglas in opposition filed.
2022-01-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 2, 2022)
2021-12-29
Application (21A278) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until February 3, 2022.
2021-12-20
Application (21A278) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 20, 2021 to February 3, 2022, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.

Attorneys

Heath Douglas
Liisa Renee SpeakerSpeaker Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner
Liisa Renee SpeakerSpeaker Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner
Nancy Summers Douglas
James Patrick CunninghamWilliams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett, P.C., Respondent
James Patrick CunninghamWilliams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett, P.C., Respondent