COOPER VS. STATE OF NEV. (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirement of NRAP 3(e). After docketing on June 23, 2025, the court issued a 14-day notice requiring payment or a showing of compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis procedure). Appellant neither paid nor responded. The court dismissed the appeal pursuant to NRAP 3(a)(2). The order announces no substantive rule and does not reach the merits.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally have to pay a filing fee, or else show they qualify to proceed without paying it (a process called proceeding "in forma pauperis," which essentially means asking the court to waive fees because the filer cannot afford them). In this case, Rishard'Dnae Cooper filed an appeal but did not pay the filing fee. On the same day the appeal was docketed, the court sent him a notice giving him 14 days either to pay the fee or to show he qualified for a fee waiver under the court's rules. The notice warned that if he did neither, the appeal would be thrown out. According to the court, Cooper did not pay the fee and did not respond to the notice at all. Because of that, the court dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the merits of whatever issue Cooper was trying to appeal.