The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to find no easy way to resolve an international child custody battle between a U.S. Army soldier and a Scottish woman, a battle with important ramifications for the power of federal courts.
The justices heard arguments in Chafin v. Chafin, in which Sgt. Jeffrey Lee Chafin argues that his appeal of a federal district court order returning his daughter to Scotland is not moot just because the child has left this countryan issue that has created a split in the federal appellate courts.
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