Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee

Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate matter (AC 47676) is pending, and then refuses to adjudicate the Petitioner’s Motion to Vacate for lack of jurisdiction.

Whether a judge’s subsequent recusal—based expressly on having acted in violation of the appellate stay—requires retroactive invalidation of the tainted rulings, reinstatement of the Motion to Vacate, and restoration of appellate review obstructed by the same judge’s improper actions.

Whether Connecticut courts violated due process by refusing to address jurisdiction after the trial judge acknowledged the pending appeal, mischaracterized the Motion to Vacate, and continued to act without authority, in conflict with this Court’s precedents requiring strict jurisdictional compliance.

. Whether a state supreme court violates the Fourteenth Amendment . when it declines to remedy a lower court’s unconstitutional refusal , ‘. to hear jurisdictional < • motions—even after the judge was later * I , recused for bias directly connected to those same proceedings.

Whether jurisdictional defects—non-waivable under this Court’s decisions in Steel Co., Arbaugh, and Capron—may be ignored by both