Read Mendoza v. Miranda, 08-55067

In a petition claiming wrongful retention of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the grant of the petition is reversed, where: 1) a court may not find that a child is not "settled" because she lacks lawful immigration status; and 2) Respondent did not "conceal" the child's whereabouts and thus equitable tolling did not apply.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/07/2008
• Decided 03/18/2009
• Published 03/18/2009

Judges

• Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, ROGER J. MINER, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark T. Cramer and Elisa L. Miller, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, for the respondent-appellant., Lori R.E. Ploeger, Maureen P. Alger, and Christopher B. Durbin, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, for the petitioner-appellee.