CABRAL VS. JOHNSON (FAMILY)
Posture Shawnice Annie Cabral docketed an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court on July 1, 2025, without paying the required filing fee. The court issued a notice the same day directing her to pay the fee or demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing proceedings in forma pauperis) within 14 days, warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal. Cabral did not pay the fee or respond.
Key holdings
Practitioner summary
This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) and failure to comply with NRAP 24 within the 14-day period set by the court's notice. The opinion contains no merits analysis and announces no new doctrine; it is a routine administrative dismissal for noncompliance with docketing requirements.
In plain language
When someone files an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally have to pay a filing fee. If they cannot afford it, there is a process to ask the court to waive the fee (under a rule called NRAP 24, which governs filing as a "pauper" - someone too poor to pay). In this case, Shawnice Annie Cabral filed an appeal against Bobby Johnson on July 1, 2025, but did not pay the filing fee. That same day, the court sent her a notice telling her she had 14 days to either pay the fee or follow the procedure to have it waived. The notice warned that if she did neither, her appeal would be thrown out. Cabral did not pay and did not respond. The court therefore dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the underlying merits of the dispute between the parties.
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