Marina Mezitis Diorinou v. Nicholas H.E. Mezitis

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a country may not be a child’s habitual residence if, under the Convention, the child had been wrongfully removed to or retained in that country
• stating that “a case-specific inquiry is sometimes appropriate” when determining the propriety of deference to a foreign court ruling
• noting that a country may not be a child’s habitual residence if, under the Convention, the child had been wrongfully removed to or retained in that country
• applying Hilton and concluding that Greek ruling on custody was conclusive as to facts concerning controversy
• discussing factors used in determining whether to extend preclusive effect to a foreign court’s determination
• noting, in this context, that courts frequently refer to their “defer[ence] to the foreign tribunal’s adjudication of the underlying matter [a]s a matter of ‘comity’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).