Access to the courts

1. Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to impose and enforce a filing restriction against an indigent self-represented litigant without notice or hearing, where the only stated path to filing requires review by a member of the state bar and no alternative mechanism exists for jurisdictional, constitutional, emergency, or judicial-disqualification motions. 2. Whether a state appellate court denies meaningful access to court and procedural due process when it disposes of preserved constitutional access-to-courts challenges through unexplained denials or minimally explained orders, thereby preventing further review and leaving in place an ongoing filing restriction entered without notice or hearing. 3. Whether fifing restrictions imposed and enforced without notice, hearing, neutral standards, or meaningful appellate review present an issue of exceptional national importance when they burden judicial-relief filings by an indigent litigant who also engaged in protected petitioning activity and public criticism of alleged judicial corruption.