WHALLON v. LYNN

No. 00-2041.

230 F.3d 450 (2000)

Richard Charles WHALLON, Jr., Petitioner, Appellee v. Diana LYNN, Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry S. Pollack, with whom Dechert Price & Rhoads, Todd & Weld, Elaine M. Epstein, Gary O. Todd, and Charlene A. Caldeira were on brief for appellant.

Mary A. Azzarito, with whom Tucker and Cinquegrana, Stephen J. Cullen, and Miles & Stockbridge were on brief for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

In May 2000, Richard Charles Whallon, Jr. petitioned for the return of his five-year-old daughter, Micheli Lynn Whallon King, to Mexico pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. See Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 19 I.L.M. 1501 (1980).1 Micheli had been taken by her mother, Diana Lynn, from Mexico, where...

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