Supreme Court· 1/12/1988

Thompson v. Thompson

Citations

484 U.S. 174
108 S. Ct. 513
98 L. Ed. 2d 512
1988 U.S. LEXIS 307
56 U.S.L.W. 4055

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holding that a private remedy will not be implied unless legislative intent can be inferred from statutory language or elsewhere
stating that “[t]he context of the PKPA therefore suggests that the principal problem Congress was seeking to remedy was the inapplicability of full faith and credit requirements to custody determinations”
focusing on congressional intent but looking more broadly to legislative history and allowing that private rights of action could be implied rather than explicit
focusing on congressional intent but looking more broadly to legislative history and allowing that private rights of action could be implied rather than explicit
finding no private right of action under the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980, 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, to determine which of two conflicting state custody decisions is valid
refusing to imply right of action under federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act

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Judges: Marshall, Rehnquist, Brennan, White, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia

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