Kitam

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ELISABETH SOBEH KITAM, Case No. 21-cv-09235-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE EX PARTE APPLICATION

v. FOR TRO

CHRISTIAN TITTI MOUSSI, Re: Dkt. No. 7 Defendant.

12 Plaintiff Elisabeth Sobeh Kitam, a French citizen residing in Canada, filed a verified complaint alleging that her estranged husband, defendant Christian Titti Moussi, has retained custody of their child, N.M.E., in Alameda, California, in contravention of a French custody order. See Dkt. No. 1. Kitam contends that Titti Moussi has abducted N.M.E., and asks for an order requiring N.M.E. to be returned to Canada under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which is implemented in the United States by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), 22 U.S.C. § 9001 et seq. To that end, Kitam filed an ex parte application for a TRO asking, among other requests, that the Court prohibit the removal of N.M.E. from California pending…