Small Engine Shop, Inc. v. Concetta Cangelosi Cascio, Don Hathaway

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Small Engine Shop, has propelled us to confront a sizable issue arising under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. A Louisiana statute allows “any person” to request actual notice in advance of the seizure of specific immovable property by filing the request in the mortgage records of the parish in which the property is located. La.Rev.Stat. Ann. 13:3886 (West supp.1989). In Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams, the Supreme Court held that any owner of property subject to deprivation must re ceive “notice by mail or other means as certain to…