Opinion ID: 2180889
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Heading: What Due Process May Require

Text: Once the right to federal due process protection for a property or liberty interest is established, a question remains as to what procedures fulfill the due process requirement. This Court once said that due process requires notice in some proper form and an opportunity to be heard before some tribunal, not necessarily a court or before a jury. Town of Walkerton v. New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Co. (1939), 215 Ind. 206, 214, 18 N.E.2d 799, 803, cert. denied, 308 U.S. 556, 60 S.Ct. 75, 84 L.Ed. 467. When protected interests are implicated, Roth suggests the extent of process required is notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case. ... Roth, 408 U.S. at 570, 92 S.Ct. at 2705, 33 L.Ed.2d at 556 n. 7 (emphasis added) (quoting Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S. 535, 542, 91 S.Ct. 1586, 1591, 29 L.Ed.2d 90, 96 (1971)). Thus, the City could obviate counts III and IV by establishing that the process given to Speckman was adequate under the circumstances.