United States Second Circuit

Evidence of arrangements that father and foreign authorities would be willing to facilitate childrens' repatriation is insufficient to overcome uncontroverted evidence that repatriation under any circumstances would subject them to post-traumatic stress disorder under Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2001
• Published 01/18/2001

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before FEINBERG, CABRANES, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sanford Hausler (Valerie S. Wolfman, Robert Arenstein, Linda Silberman, of counsel), New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant., Wendy H. Schwartz, Assistant United States Attorney (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae United States of America., Clifton S. Elgarten (Bridget K. Allison, of counsel), New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry D. Leiwant, Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.