Opinion ID: 706690
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Right to Oral Hearing

Text: Kaufmann also contends that the district court violated his due process right to an oral hearing. It repeatedly has been held that there is no constitutional right to present oral argument on a motion. 12 Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure Sec. 3091 at 184 (2d ed. 1973). See Morrow v. Topping, 437 F.2d 1155, 1156 (9th Cir.1971) (rejecting due process claim). Due process does not require an oral hearing in every situation. See, e.g., FCC v. WJR, the Goodwill Station, Inc., 337 U.S. 265, 275-76 (1949) (FCC may decide certain matters without oral hearing). The district court's waiver of oral argument in this case did not violate due process. 1 In his reply brief, Kaufmann argues for the first time that Mandujano v. Basic Vegetable Prod., Inc., 541 F.2d 832, 835 (9th Cir.1976), and Torrisi v. Tucson Elec. Power Co., 8 F.3d 1370, 1377 (9th Cir.1993), cert. denied, 114 S.Ct. 2707 (1994), neither of which is a due process case, require a different result. Because Kaufmann failed to raise this argument earlier, we decline to address it. See In re Frontier Properties, Inc., 979 F.2d 1358, 1368 (9th Cir.1992).