Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al.
DueProcess
Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when husband's attorney working with family court judge discriminated against petitioner wife, denied her access to marital equitable distribution, and forced her to represent herself pro se without legal skills?
question presented is whether it is Forced Labor, pursuant 18 U.S.C. §1589 (under involuntary servitude and peonage statutes) to deny Due Process and Equal Protection by forcing for years a mother of two on limited income to represent herself as her own attorney without prerequisite legal skills as an attorney, under threat, duress, coercion and consequences of magnitude, and without compensation while enriching the welfare of the Adversary litigants and depleting her assets : without her control. This Court has not addressed these issues. This is the case of first impression.