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Jordan v. Alice Juneal Jordan
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Homer P. Jordan IV’s petition says a Georgia divorce court turned a hearing noticed for motions into a final divorce judgment while he was absent, even though the notice did not identify a trial.
- Who it affects
- The Court's refusal ended Jordan's request for Supreme Court review but did not decide his claims about notice or disability accommodation.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
He argues that due process and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act required the court to consider his pending disability-related request to postpone or adjust the hearing before proceeding.
Jordan's petition asked whether constitutional fair-procedure protections and the Americans with Disabilities Act required the Georgia court to give notice of a final trial and consider his accommodation request.
Question presented
1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to convert a hearing noticed for motions into a final divorce adjudication and enter a comprehensive final judgment in a party ’ s absence, where the notice did not identify a final trial and the court acknowledged at the outset that “ the final ” was not among the matters noticed. 2. Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as applied to state judicial services under Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004), requires meaningful consideration of a pending disability-related request for continuance or accommodation before a court treats the request as abandoned and proceeds to final, sanctions-based relief against the absent requester.
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