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The Supreme Court of the United States: Abbott v. Abbott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Alison Plenge  and
Diana Goff
Alison Plenge
Affiliation:
American Society of International Law.
Diana Goff
Affiliation:
American Society of International Law.
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International Legal Materials , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 1097 - 1117
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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End notes

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the U.S. Supreme Court website (visited June 1, 2010) http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-645.pdf.

1 Abbott v. Abbott, No. 08-645 (U.S. May 17, 2010), available at http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-645.pdf.

2 See Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction arts.3, 5, 12, Oct. 24, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670, S. Treaty Doc. No. 99-11 [hereinafter Convention]; International Child Abduction Remedies Act, Pub. L. No. 100-300, 102 Stat. 437, codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601 et seq.

3 Convention art. 5(a).

4 Abbott, No. 08-645, at 6.

5 Id. at 5.

6 Id. at 12.

7 Id. at 14.

8 Id. at 22 (Stevens, J., dissenting).

9 Id. at 23.

10 Id. at 24.

11 Id. at 25 ( “In sum, the decisions relied upon by the Court and Mr. Abbott from our sister signatories do not convince me that we should refrain from a straightforward textual analysis in this case in order to make way for a ‘universal international interpretation’ of the Convention. “).