Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Diana R. Guzzo

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to dismiss an appeal as untimely where state law makes clerk service of judgment the jurisdictional trigger for appeal, yet the clerk failed to provide the notice required by Ohio Civ.R. 58(B) and Ohio App.R. 4(A)(3).

Whether due process is violated when a litigant is denied appellate review because of the State's own procedural failure to provide notice, thereby creating the type of procedural deprivation prohibited by Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co., 455 U.S. 422 (1982).

Whether the entry of judgment by a retired judge whose assignment authority does not appear in the public record — while the same court subsequently obtained a documented Certificate of Assignment for a different judge in the same case — raises a substantial federal due process question concerning adjudicatory authority and lawful tribunal authorization under Lucia v. SEC, 585 U.S. 237 (2018), and Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009).