United States Sixth Circuit

Parties in child-custody dispute may not, under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act and the Hague Convention, seek a "home court advantage" by illegally removing children from the legal custody of a parent whose spouse disappeared.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/14/2001
• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/19/2001

Judges

• Before:  KENNEDY and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges;  GAUGHAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John E. Herbison (argued and briefed), Nashville, TN, Robert S. Catz (briefed), Nashville, TN, for Perry A. March in Nos. 00-6326 & 00-6551., Gregory D. Smith (briefed), James G. Martin, III (briefed), Stites & Harbison, Nashville, TN, Mark H. Levine (argued and briefed), Los Angeles, CA, for Lawrence E. and Carolyn R. Levine in No. 00-6326., Gregory D. Smith (briefed), James G. Martin, III (briefed), Stites & Harbison, Nashville, TN, for Lawrence E. Levine in No. 00-6551., Gregory D. Smith (briefed), James G. Martin, III (briefed), Stites & Harbison, Nashville, TN, Mark H. Levine (argued and briefed), Los Angeles, CA, for Carolyn R. Levine in No. 00-6651.