Whallon v. Lynn

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an award of attorney’s fees and expenses to petitioner-appellee, who brought an action to secure the return of his child from the United States to her habitual residence, Mexico, under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 19 I.L.M. 1501 (1980). We ordered the child’s mother, the respondent-appellant, to return the child in Whallon v. Lynn, 230 F.3d 450 (1st Cir.2000). She now challenges the fee award.

The district court granted petitioner’s request for fees and costs under the…