United States Fourth Circuit

Ruling for petitioner in action under International Child Abduction Remedies Act seeking the return of his daughter to Germany is affirmed as petitioner has established, under the Hague Convention and ICARA, that the daughter was wrongfully removed from Germany and, as no defense precludes her return, she must be promptly returned to Germany.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/13/2007
• Decided 04/18/2007
• Published 04/18/2007

Judges

• Before SHEDD and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and SAMUEL G. WILSON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Laurence James Tracy, Falls Church, Virginia, for Appellant.  Michael Alexander Johnson, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Thomas Holsten, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.