223014P.pdf   08/10/2023  Naoteru Tsuruta  v.  Sarah Tsuruta
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-3014
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Erickson, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Hague Convention. The district court did not clearly err in 
   finding that the child in question was "at home" in Japan before defendant 
   removed the child to the U.S. and the court did not err in ordering the 
   child returned to Japan; even assuming the court could consider 
   defendant's argument, raised for the first time on appeal, that plaintiff 
   had "unclean hands" because of outstanding bench warrants for failure to 
   pay child support, it is far from certain that the unclean hands doctrine 
   should apply to petitions under the Hague Convention, and given the 
   factual record and the lack of any connection between plaintiff's alleged 
   improper conduct and this case, this is not the time to decide whether the 
   doctrine applies to Hague Convention cases.