Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Elisa Hill, Chief Magistrate Judge, Summit County Domestic Relations Court, Ohio, et al.

I. Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies when a state court's own procedural violations — such as the same-day adoption of a magistrate's decision in violation of a mandatory objection window — eliminate the adequate opportunity to raise federal constitutional claims that Younger presupposes, thereby creating a complete foreclosure of all judicial remedies for admitted due process violations. II. Whether the functional immunity test of Cleavinger v. Saxner, 474 U.S. 193 (1985), and Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219 (1988), extends absolute quasi-judicial immunity to courtappointed officers for purely ministerial and administrative acts — including the maintenance of court records, processing of judicial notices, and conduct of court-ordered investigations — that are independent of the adjudicatory process, where the Third Circuit limits such immunity strictly to core judicial functions and the Sixth and Eighth Circuits extend immunity to all courtappointed duties. III. Whether, if absolute quasi-judicial immunity does not apply to ministerial and administrative acts by court-appointed officers, such officers are entitled to qualified immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where the district court never reached the qualified immunity analysis because it granted absolute immunity categorically.