Robert G. Hicks v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority
DueProcess Takings JusticiabilityDoctri
Does a failure to cite jurisdiction and service of process statutes in a default judgment violate due process?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED In an eminent domain proceeding in state court involving non-residents, does a failure to cite in any pleadings preceding essentially a default judgment (or in that judgment itself) the statute establishing jurisdiction and the statute or civil rule establishing the legal authority for service of process undertaken and a failure to demonstrate in the court file any actual service on either respondent or any reasonable rationale for actual service of process not being made, cause that judgment to fail to comply with the Due Process Clause under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, of the U. S. Constitution? Does depublication by a state’s highest court of one of its intermediate court’s clearly erroneous opinions (which included an express refusal to address U.S. Constitutional law issues as being “moot”) without granting requested discretionary review, deny an adversely impacted party to the litigation Due Process, and protection of the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2) and/or Equal Protection of the law under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, of the U. S. Constitution?