Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 13(a) provides that
"any question of law may be brought up for review and relief
by any party." Well, not always.
In Melo Enterprises, LLC, et al. v. D1 Sports Holdings,
LLC, Case No. M2017-02294-COA-R3-CV, decided January 25, 2019,
by the Tennessee Court of Appeals, D1 filed a motion to
compel arbitration of Melo's claims for conversion,
fraudulent representation and declaratory relief arising out of the
sale of limited partnership units. The trial court compelled
arbitration on the conversion and declaratory relief claims but
noting a Tennessee choice of law provision in an underlying
document, held that Tennessee law required judicial determination
of the fraudulent inducement claim. D1 immediately
appealed.
