No. 20-1034October Term 2020Decided Jun 15, 2022
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
- 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.
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Jul 25, 2026
- Method
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