Supreme Court steps into international custody dispute, giving lower courts more discretion
By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN
In an international child custody dispute, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that once a US court finds that returning an abducted child to the home country would subject the child to grave risk, courts are not required to consider whether there are some measures that can be taken to mitigate those risks.
The court wiped away a federal appeals court and sent a case concerning a child born in Italy back to the lower court for further proceedings.
The ruling is a win for an American woman who fled with her Italian-born child to the US after she said they faced abuse at the hands of her Italian-born husband. She sought to keep the child in the US while the custody proceedings played out. The husband filed a criminal kidnapping complaint against his wife in both Italian and American courts.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the unanimous opinion of the court.
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