Questão jurídica principal
Whether dismissing the debt-enforcement proceeding as moot without giving the debtor a chance to respond violated the right to be heard.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Before ending the case as moot, the court had to allow the debtor to comment on the intended dismissal and on costs.
Fundamentação extraída
The right to be heard includes the opportunity to speak on decisive facts and on the intended procedural termination. Since the alleged payment was disputed and the debtor was not shown to have received the creditor's letter, the court could not rely on that communication alone.