Federal Judiciary

New Filing in Abbott v. Abbott

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Today we filed this reply brief in No. 08-645, Abbott v. Abbott, which will be on the January 16 conference.  At issue in the case is whether a ?ne exeat? right, which requires consent from one parent before the other parent may remove the child from his country of habitual residence, is a ?right of custody? for purposes of the Hague Convention governing international child abduction.  In addition to our co-counsel, Adair Dyer, team members included Stanford law students JP Schnapper-Casteras and David Schwartz.  The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ? which is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention ? filed an amicus brief supporting our petition.  The respondent in the case is represented by Stephen Kinnaird of Paul Hastings; her brief in opposition is available here.  The cert. petition is here.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on December 31, 2008 (boomark / email).