United States v. Shahani-Jahromi

How courts have described this case

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• holding that wrongful retention of a child in a foreign country, which impeded that child’s travel back to the U.S. through the channels of commerce, provided a sufficient basis for Congress to exercise its Foreign Com- merce power
• applying the due process nexus requirement where the defendant, while in Iran, violated Virginia court orders by removing his daughter from her mother’s custody
• denying motion to dismiss IPKCA charges that were based solely on unlawful retention in Iran
• “By keeping the child outside the United States, her ability to use the channels of international commerce to re-enter the United States is impeded.”
• “The retention portion of the IPKCA does not constrain state power; to the contrary, it is aimed at ensuring that state custody orders are enforced and given effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).