Anthony Quinn Wheeler, Jr. v. Giant of Maryland, LLC

Whether a state court deprives a litigant of a protected property interest without due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment by invoking the doctrine of res judicata to permanently dismiss distinct state-law claims with prejudice, despite explicitly conceding on the record that no prior adjudication on the merits ever occurred for those specific claims.

Whether a trial court violates a litigant’s procedural rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing a pro se action with prejudice for failure to state a cause of action, without providing explicit notice of the specific pleading deficiencies or granting leave to amend, where the underlying facts support a cognizable legal claim and where opposing counsel was afforded disparate procedural latitude.