hague-convention
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-666 | Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense | Is a trial court's determination that a child is 'well settled' subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error? |
| 25A430 | Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid | First Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent | Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction… | |
| 25A376 | Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Application | child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a circuit split regarding the interpretation of the Hague Convention's provisions on child custody and inte… | |
| 24-7482 | Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn | Second Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | IFP | child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception | Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut… |
| 24-1205 | Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe | Second Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | child-abduction hague-convention international-law mature-child-defense parental-consent undue-influence | Whether a parent's continued consent to a child's temporary stay abroad resets the date of wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, and whether … |
| 24-1119 | Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law | Whether the Hague Convention authorizes a determination that children with no habitual residence are unprotected against international child abduction |
| 24A601 | Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-court-interpretation custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-custody parental-custody | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Hague Convention in determining a child's habitual residence and parental cust… | |
| 24-390 | Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights | Whether parties to a Hague Convention child custody case may waive rights to seek child return and resolve disputes exclusively in the United States |
| 23-7137 | Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton | Texas | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal | Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28… |
| 23-932 | Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention | Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding—in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits'—t… | |
| 23-5425 | Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Thea Marie Rosasen | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process emotional-abuse ex-parte-order habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-rights return-remedy | Whether the order to vacate trial ex-parte in chambers, revoking granted oral arguments and cross examination, was constitutional |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 21-1060 | Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention | In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit… | |
| 21-825 | Persephone Johnson Shon v. Bogdan Radu | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | ameliorative-measures article-13b burden-of-proof child-abduction custody-dispute grave-risk hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law | Whether a district court is required to consider ameliorative measures after finding that a return would expose the child to grave risk |
| 21-797 | Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement… |
| 21-5740 | Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz | California | 2021-09-21 | Denied | IFP | child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal | Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his… |
| 20-1428 | Tammy Noergaard v. Christian Noergaard | California | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hague-convention judicial-review jurisdiction trial-costs trial-delays trial-jurisdiction | Does a reviewing court retain jurisdiction to review lower court decisions for due process violations under the Equal Protection Clause that occur bef… |
| 20-1275 | Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips | Ohio | 2021-03-15 | Denied | blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery | When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req… | |
| 20-1225 | Jenean Elizabeth Winston, et al. v. Mark Anthony Walsh | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-notice affidavit civil-procedure hague-convention prejudice service-of-process | Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming the District Court's dismissal of the case due to insufficient service of process? |
| 20-1034 | Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada | Second Circuit | 2021-01-29 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) | ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law | Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
| 20-864 | Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II | Minnesota | 2020-12-30 | Denied | child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement | Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com… | |
| 20-6064 | Alan Justin Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal | Whether the incommunicado detention of natural custodial children |
| 19-6310 | Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights | Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under the Hague Convention despite Guatemalan law giving custody to t… |
| 18-935 | Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (3) | child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review | Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und… |
| 18-661 | Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal | Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr… |
| 18-146 | Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | ' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children | Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations… |
| 18-5197 | Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit | Georgia | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation | Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention? |