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DAVID HITTNER, United States District Judge *860Pending before the Court is Respondent's Motion to Dismiss and Incorporated Memorandum of Law. Having considered the motion, submissions, evidence, and applicable law, the Court determines the motion should be granted. I. BACKGROUND This case involves the wrongful retention of a ch

FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW DAVID HITTNER, United States District Judge On April 26, 2017, this Court commenced a non-jury trial in the above-entitled matter, during which the Court received evidence and heard sworn testimony. Having considered the evidence, testimony, and oral arguments presented during trial, along with post-trial submissions and the applicable law, the Court now enters the

Justice Ginsburg, with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Breyer join, concurring. The driving objective of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Convention) is to facilitate custody adjudications, promptly and exclusively, in the place where the child habitually resides. See Convention, Arts. 1, 3, Oct. 25,1980, T. I. A. S. No. 11670, S. Treaty Doc. No. 99-11, p. 7 (Treaty

Argued before Barbera, C.J. Greene * , Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ. Adkins, J. **163 "The true nature of the hearsay rule is nowhere better illustrated and emphasized than in those cases which fal

C.J. Williams, Chief United States Magistrate Judge TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Background...949 II. Applicable Law...950 III. Discussion...950 A. Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Exercise of Custody Rights...950 1. Exercise of Custody Rights...950 2. Subject Matter Jurisdiction...957 B.

SUTTON, Circuit Judge. Domenico Taglieri and Michelle Monasky were married. When the union fell apart, Monasky took A.M.T., their two-month-old daughter, from Italy to the United States. Taglieri filed a petition under the Hague Convention to return A.M.T. to Italy. The district court granted the petition after finding that Italy was A.M.T.'s country of habitual residence. Monasky appealed. Who win

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. In 1995, Alan Beaman was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Lockmiller. Thirteen years later, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned his conviction, finding that the state violated his due process rights under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), for failure to disclose material info

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW DAVID COUNTS, United States Magistrate Judge. BEFORE THE COURT is Petitioner Maria Marcella Rodriguez Munoz’ Verified Petition for Return of Child. (Doc. 1). This case was referred to the Magistrate Judge for the Midland/Odessa Division on August 2, 2012, by Order of Referral from the United States District Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636 and Appendix C of the Loc

C.J. Williams, Chief United States Magistrate Judge TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction...878 II. Procedural History...878 III. Factual History...878 IV. Jurisdiction...881 V. Applicable Law...882 VI. Discussion...882 A. Wrongful Removal or Retention...883 1. Habitually Resid

2021 IL 125617 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS (Docket No. 125617) ALAN BEAMAN, Appellant, v. TIM FREESMEYER et al., Appellees. Opinion filed July 29, 2021. JUSTICE NEVILLE delivered the judgment of the court,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER MARTHA VÁZQUEZ, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Petitioner’s Verified Complaint and Petition for Return of the Children [Doc. 1] and Brief in Support of [the] Verified Complaint for Return of the Children [Doc. 2]. Respondent timely filed an Answer to [the] Verified Complaint and Petition for Return of the Children [Doc. 9]. The Co

MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER YOUNG B. KIM, United States . Magistrate Judge James Blakes, Steven Clark, Herman Deckys, Bradley Hunt, Phillipe Porter, Ernest Roberts, Jr., and Larry Williams (collectively, “the named plaintiffs”) brought this action against Illinois Bell Telephone' Company (“Illinois Bell”) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., claiming that Illinoi

*811 ORDER & OPINION JOE BILLY McDADE, United States Senior District Judge This matter is before the Court on the Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 109), filed by Defendants Tim Freesmeyer, Dave Warner, Frank Zayas, and Town of Normal, Illinois.1 Plaintiff has filed a Response (Doc. 127), and Defendants file