Cuellar

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LEYDA SANTALIBRADA CUELLAR,  No. 09-35068 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No. 2:08-cv-00084-RFC

RICHARD CECIL JOYCE,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Richard F. Cebull, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 4, 2009—Portland, Oregon

Submission Vacated November 5, 2009 Resubmitted and Filed February 19, 2010

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Raymond C. Fisher and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Chief Judge Kozinski

3083 3086 CUELLAR v. JOYCE

COUNSEL

Kevin M. Ashby and Robert R. Miller, Milbank, Tweed, Had- ley & McCloy LLP, New York, New York; and Michael Anderson, Anderson & Liechty, P.C., Billings, Montana, for the petitioner-appellant.

Ronald F. Waterman and Sarah M. Power, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, PLLP, Helena Montana, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:

Petitioner seeks the return of her daughter to Panama under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The…