Armstrong v. Manzo

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the failure to give notice under Rule 245 “result[s] in a violation of fundamental due process”
• stating that a fundamental requirement of due process is the opportunity to be heard “at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”
• reversing judgment confirming adoption decree and remanding case where failure to timely notify natural father of adoption proceedings placed burden on him that he otherwise would not have had
• reversing judgment confirming adoption decree and remanding case where failure to timely notify natural father of adoption proceedings placed burden on him that he otherwise would not have had
• reversing 5 a state court decree confirming a prior adoption procedure of which petitioner had 6 admittedly never been provided notice
• “A fundamental requirement of due process is ‘the opportunity to be heard.’ It is an opportunity which must be granted at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).