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SANCHEZ v. R.G.L.

No. 12-50783.

743 F.3d 945 (2014)

Angelica Lopez SANCHEZ, Plaintiff-Appellee v. R.G.L., as next friend Alex Hernandez; S.I.G.L., as next friend Alex Hernandez; A.S.G.L., as next friend Alex Hernandez, Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 21, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Caswell (argued), Esq. , Attorney, Marisa C. Balderas-Flores (argued), Attorney, Balderas & Balderas, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Lee J. Teran , Albert Henry Kauffman , Adriane Jaeckle Meneses , Andrea Melissa Sauters Aguilar, Esq. , School of Law, San Antonio, TX, Adam Auchter Allgood, Esq , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P. Christopher Simon Bloom , Nicholas Gerhart Grimmer (argued), Attorney, McDermott Will & Emery, L.L.P. Geoffrey Alan Hoffman, Esq., University of Houston, Houston, TX, for Movants-Appellants.

Rosa Arguelles Shirley , Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Amicus Curiae Kids in Need of Defence.

August E. Flentje (argued), Katherine E.M. Goettel , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Lori Ann Alvino McGill , Katherine Ireland Twomey , Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Blaine Meredith Bookey (argued), Karen Musalo , UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Center For Gender & Refugee Studies, at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Before JOLLY, DeMOSS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

Three children who are natives of Mexico, through a next friend, appeal the district court's finding under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction that they were being wrongfully retained in the United States and should be returned to Angelica Sanchez, their mother. While this appeal was pending, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services granted the children asylum. Because we find...

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