On November 4, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Tarakhel v. Switzerland that if Swiss authorities sent a family of asylum seekers back to Italy under the Dublin Regulation without first obtaining individual assurances of their care, Switzerland would be in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention).  According to the press release, the Court found that if Switzerland sent the family back to Italy without “sufficient assurances that . . . the applicants would be taken charge of in a manner adapted to the age of the children and that the family would be kept together,” Switzerland would be in violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the Convention, especially due to Italy’s issues with “problems [of] legal aid, care and psychological assistance in the emergency reception centres, the time taken to identify vulnerable persons and the preservation of family unity during transfers.”