1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liberty.

2. Whether a district court's sua sponte dismissal of a pro se, fee-paid § 1983 action, without notice or leave to amend to add proper state officials under Ex parte Young or to present the federal constitutional questions, violates due process, burdens the First Amendment right to petition, and impairs this Court's appellate jurisdiction.

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liberty; and whether a district court's sua sponte dismissal of a pro se, fee-paid § 1983 action violates due process