This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Frederic Block denied a father’s Hague Convention petition for the return of his children to Poland. With minor exception, Judge Brian M. Cogan denied motions by defendant Arab Bank, LLC, in the wake of a jury verdict finding it liable for numerous acts of terrorism. And Judge Jack B. Weinstein declined to enforce choice-of-forum provisions found in defendant company’s online agreements.
Hague Convention
In Gwiazdowski v. Gwiazdowska, 14 CV 1482 (EDNY, April 3, 2015), Judge Block denied a father’s petition for the return of his two minor children from New York to Poland pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, where the children are now “settled” in their new environment with their mother.
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