Harris Walker v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• observing that reviewing courts are required to address constitutional issues specifically involving a defendant’s notice of a hearing and opportunity to be heard
• holding State failed to serve father with petition for termination of parental rights and failed to conduct a reasonably diligent search for the father, preventing him from being heard and rendering the judgment of termination void
• requiring consideration of insufficient-notice issue despite error preservation concerns because notice “goes to the heart of the district court’s jurisdiction”
• confining analysis to statutory law because notice had to satisfy \Iowa statutory test as well as the test of due process\ (citation omitted)
• noting investigator’s search included “numerous inquiries” but “did not include the obvious inquires a reasonable person would make under the circumstances”
• observing lack-of-notice arguments go “to the heart of the district court’s jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).