Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank
1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's knowledge rather than the decedent's, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the decedent was fraudulently induced to act and the fraud could not have reasonably been discovered due to active concealment by the defendant.
2. Whether a state court's refusal to permit amendment of a complaint to allege fraudulent concealment violates the constitutional right of access to courts where the fraud claim otherwise could not be discovered before the decedent's death.
Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's knowledge rather than the decedent's, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the decedent was fraudulently induced to act and the fraud could not have reasonably been discovered due to active concealment by the defendant