Romil Rafael Estrella Taveras v. Carolyn R. Paiewonsky Taveraz

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that although the “ATS holds great potential to bring justice to certain serious violations of human, civil, and environmental rights in a federal forum,” the statute “by no means[ ] supplies jurisdiction over every wrong committed against an alien”
• noting ICARA “does provide for judicial remedies for non- 22 custodial parents, namely for rights of access claims”
• “A fundamental element of the offense of piracy is that the acts of robbery or depredation must have been committed upon the high seas.”
• “A fundamental element of the offense of piracy is that the acts of robbery or depredation must have been committed upon the high seas.”
• “[T]he theory of comity can serve as a discretionary basis for a court to determine whether a foreign country court’s judgment should be given preclusive effect.”
• “courts are obligated to consider whether a judgment of a foreign court should be afforded comity only when the . . . court already has jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).