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Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-10801 · judgment July 30, 2024


Certiorari denied · April 21, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit’s habitual-residence analysis conflicts with this Court’s totality-of-thecircumstances standard under Monasky v. Taglieri, by finding that a child’s significant residence and social ties in the United States can be effectively disregarded by a presumption that a short-term visit cannot evolve into a new habitual residence. Monasky v. Taglieri, 589 U.S. 78 (2020). II. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by failing to apply a consistent, child-centered standard to the “well-settled” affirmative defense, and whether a trial court has virtually unbounded “equitable discretion” to order a child’s return even after finding that the child is well-settled

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert L. Sirianni Jr.
Brownstone, P.A.

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
24A601

Proceedings

  1. Apr 21 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 26 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
  3. Feb 04 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 12, 2025)
  4. Dec 18 2024
    Application (24A601) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 4, 2025.
  5. Dec 16 2024
    Application (24A601) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 5, 2025 to February 19, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.