Beverly Pellegrini v. Fresno County Public Guardian as Trustee, et al.

Whether the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause are violated when state courts, without statutory authority over the property or parties, affirm orders by materially misrepresenting evidence to liquidate a surviving spouse's revocable trust assets and transfer them to an instrument that fails as a trust by operation of law for distribution to county government employees and other non­ beneficiary third parties.

Whether procedural due process is violated when: (i) trial court findings at close are verbatim to pre-trial findings entered on the docket; and (ii) a state appellate court intentionally misstates evidence to avoid review of threshold jurisdictional issues thereby justifying a wrongful taking of property.

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, lacking statutory authority over the property and parties of a prior action applies forfeiture: (i) to threshold jurisdictional issues raised but never adjudicated; and (ii) against an unjoined party whose interest derives from a separate trust not at issue in the prior action when preclusion does not apply.