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No. 20-1034October Term 2020Decided Jun 15, 2022

Docket 20-1034October Term 2020 (2020–2021)

Golan v. Saada

This case concerns when a court handling an international child-abduction dispute under the Hague Convention may refuse to send a child back to the child’s home country after finding that return would expose the child to a grave risk of physical or psychological harm.

Case status

Current stage
Decided
Latest event
Decision released Jun 15, 2022
Case Accepted
Arguments
Decision ReleasedJun 15, 2022
What it's about

This case concerns when a court handling an international child-abduction dispute under the Hague Convention may refuse to send a child back to the child’s home country after finding that return would expose the child to a grave risk of physical or psychological harm. The dispute specifically asks whether courts must consider protective or other ameliorative measures that might make return possible despite that grave-risk finding.

Question presented

Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliorative measures that would facilitate the return of the child notwithstanding the grave risk finding.

Case path

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit / Decision released Jun 15, 2022

Area

Decided Supreme Court case

Timing

Decided June 15, 2022

The Court released its decision on June 15, 2022 without hearing oral argument.