Fairness in family court

1. Whether California Family Code § 3170's mandatory, closed-door custody mediation scheme, which delegates judicial fact-finding to non-judicial county mediators and forecloses meaningful appellate review, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 2. Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when an unresolved discovery motion pending in one department is permitted to indefinitely forestall a statutorily mandated child-support hearing in another, while enforcement continues against an indigent, self-represented litigant. 3. Whether a state appellate court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by summarily dismissing a timely appeal sua sponte without affording the disability accommodations and statutory supplemental briefing due an indigent, disabled litigant. 4. Whether a state's unnoticed destruction of the trial record, combined with denial of a verbatim transcript to an indigent litigant, constitutes a structural due process defect under Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. that forecloses meaningful appellate review. 5. Whether a trial judge violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of a neutral and impartial tribunal by applying an inconsistent evidentiary standard that denied a self represented litigant the opportunity to present evidence, as reflected in the judge's own admission on the record.