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meaningful opportunity to be heard

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United States Supreme Court

due process requires, at a minimum, that absent a countervailing state interest of overriding significance, persons forced to settle their claims of right and duty through the judicial process must be given a meaningful opportunity to be heard.

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 (1971).