Petitions of the week

Issue:Whether a childs habitual residence can be changed based on one parents unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another country plus the passage of time.

Issues:(1) Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent and mentally ill suspect in the course of bringing the suspect into custody; (2) whether, under the Fourth Amendment totality of the circumstances analysis for assessing the reasonableness of force used against a suspect who attacks law enforcement officers, a court must take into account allegedly unreasonable police conduct that took place before the use of force, but foreseeably created the need to use that force; and (3) whether, under the Fourth Amendments analysis for use of force, a law enforcement officers interest in using deadly force against a suspect threatening an officers life is diminished if the assailant is mentally ill.

Issue:Whether a statute requiring a court, upon a defendants request, to order a nonresident plaintiff to post a minimal security bond for costs violates either the privileges and immunities clause of Article VI, Section 2 of the United States Constitution or the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.