Seth Neil Helgeson v. Dann Edward Greenwood, Judge, District Court of Stark County, North Dakota, et al.
1. Whether a state court that accepts jurisdiction, directs adversarial
briefing on preserved federal constitutional claims, and thereafter denies
discretionary relief without resolving those claims has entered a final
judgment reviewable under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a).
2. Whether Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution requires
that an individual exercising state prosecutorial authority take and
subscribe the constitutional oath before exercising that authority, and
whether a timely structural challenge to that qualification must be
adjudicated.
Whether a state court that accepts jurisdiction, directs adversarial briefing on preserved federal constitutional claims, and thereafter denies discretionary relief without resolving those claims has entered a final judgment reviewable under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a), and whether Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution requires that an individual exercising state prosecutorial authority take and subscribe the constitutional oath before exercising that authority