Seth Neil Helgeson v. Dann Edward Greenwood, Judge, District Court of Stark County, North Dakota, et al.

Whether a state court that accepts jurisdiction, directs adversarial briefing on preserved federal constitutional claims, and thereafter denies discretionary relief without resolving those claims has entered a final judgment reviewable under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a).

Whether Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution requires that an individual exercising state prosecutorial authority take and subscribe the constitutional oath before exercising that authority, and whether a timely structural challenge to that qualification must be adjudicated.