ANDREAS CARLWIG V. SARODJINY CARLWIG, No. 14-55671 (9th Cir. 2015)

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FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT IN RE A.L.C; E.R.S.C., Infants under the age of 16, ANDREAS CARLWIG, Petitioner-Appellee, v. No. 14-55671 D.C. No. 2:14-cv-01506ODW-SH ORDER SARODJINY CARLWIG, Respondent-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Otis D. Wright II, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted March 2, 2015—Pasadena, California Filed April 17, 2015 Before: Harry Pregerson, Ferdinand F. Fernandez, and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges. 2 IN RE A.L.C. COUNSEL Matthew A. Fitzgerald (argued), Christopher Trible, and Lauren Woods, McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Leslie M. Werlin, Dana Palmer, Molly White, Blake Olson, and Truc Nguyen, McGuireWoods LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Philip D. Parrish (argued), Philip D. Parrish, P.A., Miami, Florida; Lawrence S. Katz, Miami, Florida, for DefendantAppellee. Erin C. Smith, Nancy K.D. Lemon, and Jennafer Dorfman Wagner, Berkeley, California; Donald M. Falk, Mayer Brown LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Amici Curiae Family Violence Appellate Project, California Women’s Law Center, Legal Momentum, Women’s Law Project, and Professor Jane Stoever. ORDER Sarah Carlwig appeals the decision and order of the district court sending A.L.C. and E.R.S.C., dual-national American and Swedish children, to Sweden pursuant to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the “Convention”), and its implementing legislation, the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 22 U.S.C.A. §§ 9001–11. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. IN RE A.L.C. 3 We hereby vacate the portion of the district court’s order, Carlwig v. Carlwig (in re A.L.C.), 16 F. Supp 3d 1075 (C.D. Cal 2014), concerning the habitual residence of E.R.S.C. IT IS SO ORDERED.

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