United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Term, 2024

(Argued: September 10, 2024 Decided: October 31, 2024)

Docket No. 24-1407-cv

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MARIA ELENA SWETT URQUIETA,

Petitioner-Appellant,

v.

JOHN FRANCIS BOWE,

Respondent-Appellee.

Before:

WALKER, LOHIER, and PARK, Circuit Judges.

Petitioner-Appellant Maria Elena Swett Urquieta appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Engelmayer, J.), denying her petition for repatriation of her son S.B.S. to Chile pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 1343 U.N.T.S. 89, reprinted in 51 Fed. Reg. 10,494 (Mar. 26, 1986) (the “Hague Convention”), and its implementing statute, the International Child Abductio