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Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Division, No. E2019-01302-COA-R3-CV · judgment January 13, 2021


Certiorari denied · March 7, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

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.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Keith D. Stewart
Market Street Law, PLLC

For respondent
Wanda G. Sobieski
Sobieski, Messer & Elledge

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Related
Vide, 21-201

Proceedings

  1. Mar 07 2022
    Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
  2. Mar 07 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  3. Feb 16 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
  4. Jan 27 2022
    Response to petition from respondent Fatma Adel Sekik filed. VIDED.
  5. Jan 27 2022
    Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Fatma Adel Sekik. VIDED.
  6. Jan 18 2022
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 18, 2022.
  7. Jan 14 2022
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 7, 2022 to February 18, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
  8. Nov 02 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 7, 2022)