Joan Daniel v. Illinois Civil Service Commission, et al.

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Four­ teenth Amendment permits a state court to dismiss an appeal as untimely where a litigant complied with the Court’s established procedures for reporting elec­ tronic system failures, including obtaining a certificate of waiver, but the Court nonetheless refused to accept the filing and denied appellate review of federal claims?

Whether a state court’s refusal to accept a certificate of waiver documenting electronic filing system failure, resulting in dismissal of an appeal as untimely, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying meaningful access to appellate review?