1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25
(FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction
of the decedent are a nullity, and those same state
courts and at least two U.S. Circuit Courts have
condemned such treatment of the substitution process,
does judgment without jurisdiction here violate
petitioner's right to due process of law under the
Fourteenth Amendment?

2) The effects of state court judgments can cross many
borders. Are we allowing tactics in litigation to
circumvent the importance of personal jurisdiction?

Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment