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BREAKING: SCOTUS rules unanimously to protect children in international custody disputes

by Ashley St. Clair 


On Wednesday, Associate Justice Sotomayor in Golan v. Saada, was joined by a unanimous Court, with a ruling that will, by effect, protect children that are the subject of international child custody disputes. The Supreme Court ruling gives Federal District Courts more flexibility in determining whether it is safe to return a child to their home country.

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The heart of the opinion, demonstrates Sotomayor’s legal prowess as a textualist jurist, opening with a citation from Abbott v. Abbott, “The interpretation of a treaty, like the interpretation of a statute, begins with its text.”…


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