Legal Opinion
United States v. Cole Cameron Cummings, AKA Coleman Cameron Cummings
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 27, 2002No. 01-30032PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether the International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act, which criminalizes the retention of a kidnapped child in a foreign country, is unconstitutional.
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Cole Cameron Cummings married Dana Hopkins in 1989, and they had three children, all of whom were born in the United States and resided with their parents in the State of Washington. In 1995, Cummings and Hopkins divorced, and a Washington state court ordered the children to reside primarily with Hopkins. Cummings thereafter married a German citizen and, together with his new wife, exercised his…
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