Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik
DueProcess FourthAmendment
Whether the trial court's orders consolidating a tort case into a divorce action violated the petitioner's due-process rights
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.