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Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 18-2344 · judgment January 11, 2019


Certiorari denied · June 24, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Was Federal law violated under color of law, for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural Due Process and Equal Protection Under the Law, when husband's attorney working with family court judge discriminated against Petitioner wife denied Petitioner access to marital equitable distribution of business and personal marital monies preventing her from hiring counsel to represent and defend her in a divorce matter? Was Fourteenth Amendment Due Process violated when Petitioner forced her to represent herself pro se, lacking knowledge and skills of an attorney, while her husband was unfairly allowed to access all monies from the marital business and marital equitable distribution to pay his licensed, practiced attorneys for the full duration of the divorce matter? Defendants by their actions have made the Petitioner a tool to promote private welfare for themselves without the regard to Petitioner's constitutional rights. If anybody like the Petitioner could be robbed of their essential rights and have no voice, where the lower courts failed to correct this injustice, filing this single last exception presenting this petition to the Supreme Court is the last resort in this action. If any person, men or women, can be easily deprived from their constitutional freedoms to fulfill the wishes of the rich litigant and their paid attorneys, then what is equality and freedom now than in 1837 during slavery?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Nevenka Obuskovic

For respondent
Christopher E. Martin
Morrison Mahoney, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 24 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 04 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2019.
  3. May 15 2019
    Brief of respondents Kathleen L. Wood, Esq., et al. in opposition filed.
  4. Apr 10 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 15, 2019)