1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional limits, and record-based affirmance), they foreclose any merits forum for preserved federal constitutional claims raised in the same litigation."

2) "Whether due process permits a State to retroactively void private contracts and compel disgorgement by relying on general severability statutes (Civ. Code §§ 1598—1599) as the operative 'penalty' where the governing licensing statute—the Talent Agencies Act—is concededly silent on remedies."

Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when they foreclose merits forum for preserved federal constitutional claims, and whether due process permits retroactive voiding of private contracts through general severability statutes