COOPER VS. STATE OF NEV. (FAMILY)
Posture Rishard'Dnae Cooper filed an appeal that was docketed in the Nevada Supreme Court on June 23, 2025, without payment of the required filing fee. The court issued a notice the same day directing Cooper either to pay the fee or to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (the rule governing proceeding in forma pauperis) within 14 days, warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal. Cooper did not respond.
Key holdings
Practitioner summary
The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with NRAP 3(e)'s filing-fee requirement. After docketing on June 23, 2025, the clerk issued a 14-day notice requiring payment or compliance with NRAP 24. Appellant neither paid nor responded, and the court entered a clerk's order of dismissal.
In plain language
When someone files an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally must pay a filing fee. If they cannot afford the fee, there is a separate procedure that allows them to ask the court to waive it. In this case, Rishard'Dnae Cooper filed an appeal but did not pay the filing fee and did not file the paperwork required to proceed without paying. The court sent Cooper a notice giving him 14 days either to pay the fee or to show that he qualified to proceed without paying. The notice warned that if he did neither, his appeal would be dismissed. Cooper did not pay and did not respond. The court therefore dismissed the appeal. This order does not address the underlying merits of whatever Cooper was trying to appeal; it ends the case on procedural grounds only.
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