Lisa Fisher v. Bessie Huckabee

Petitioner Lisa Fisher’s involvement in this case was for the sole purpose of assisting her great aunt, Alice Shaw-Baker. Alice Shaw-Baker was a woman dedicated to her community, church, and animal welfare. However, Petitioner’s effort to protect her great aunt led from a conservatorship to help her with her daily living to litigation, both as representative and attorney, where both Alice Shaw-Baker’s and Petitioner’s constitutional rights were and continue to be violated. As set forth in these questions presented, the issues raised are at the forefront of the public debate regarding Elder Abuse and demonstrate how the fight against Elder Abuse may put individual fiduciaries in peril of sanctions both formal and in the loss of compensation:

1. Did petitioner, in her capacity as conservator, have Standing to assert the Due Process rights of the decedent when she had knowledge that an underlying will was revoked and/or the will required Reformation to ensure that her desires to benefit Animal Charities was preserved?

2. Did petitioner receive the process due her under the Fifth Amendment to the federal constitution where she was subjected to unfair and biased proceedings where the court was engaged in ex parte communications with respondents, subjected to “independent investigation” by the judge of purported facts without judicial notice or being allowed to object or rebut said evidence, threatened with contempt proceedings and sanctions in the amount of $100.00 per day, deprived of notice of a “secret meeting” by the trial judge with the respondents, subjected to