No. 21-971

Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik

Lower Court: Tennessee
Docketed: 2022-01-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-procedure consolidation divorce divorce-action due-process jury-trial marital-assets procedural-rights tort tort-consolidation valuation
Key Terms:
DueProcess FourthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2022-03-04
Related Cases: 21-201 (Vide)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the trial court's orders consolidating a tort case into a divorce action violated the petitioner's due-process rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the trial court’s orders as affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals consolidating a tort case (claims of the divorce plaintiff against this defendant for fraudulent dissipation of marital assets) into a divorce action wherein the petitioner was denied his right to trial by jury pursuant to Tennessee’s statutory scheme regarding divorce actions violated his substantive or procedural rights to due process of law as applied against him by the trial court. 2. Whether the trial court’s orders as affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals consolidating a tort case (claims of the divorce plaintiff against this defendant for fraudulent dissipation of marital assets) into a divorce action wherein the petitioner was denied his right to contest the valuation of property as testified to by wife and husband pursuant to Tennessee’s statutory scheme regarding divorce actions violated his substantive or procedural rights to due process of law as applied against him by the trial court. 3. Whether the trial court’s award to the respondent of more money than she sought in her ad damnum or asked for at trial violated the petitioner’s right to due process of law.

Docket Entries

2022-03-07
Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2022-01-18
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 18, 2022.
2022-01-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 7, 2022 to February 18, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-11-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 7, 2022)

Attorneys

Fatma Adel Sekik
Wanda G. SobieskiSobieski, Messer & Elledge, Respondent
Wanda G. SobieskiSobieski, Messer & Elledge, Respondent
Nahed Abdulnabi
Keith D. StewartMarket Street Law, PLLC, Petitioner
Keith D. StewartMarket Street Law, PLLC, Petitioner