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Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 21-1335 · judgment September 21, 2021


Certiorari denied · April 4, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires the return of not only a child who was wrongfully removed from the child’s habitual residence, but also a child who was wrongfully retained in a country other than that child’s habitual residence. The question presented is: In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habitual residence has arisen?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Liisa Renee Speaker
Speaker Law Firm, PLLC

For respondent
James Patrick Cunningham
Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett, P.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
21A278

Proceedings

  1. Apr 04 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 16 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
  3. Mar 11 2022
    Reply of petitioner Heath Douglas filed.
  4. Mar 02 2022
    Brief of respondent Nancy Summers Douglas in opposition filed.
  5. Jan 27 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 2, 2022)
  6. Dec 29 2021
    Application (21A278) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until February 3, 2022.
  7. Dec 20 2021
    Application (21A278) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 20, 2021 to February 3, 2022, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.