GONZALEZ VS. RIVERA (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal for failure to comply with appellate filing requirements. Under NRAP 3(f)(1), a case appeal statement must accompany the notice of appeal. The court issued a notice on December 3, 2024, citing NRAP 3(f)(1), and warned of potential sanctions under NRAP 3(a)(2). After noncompliance, the court issued a December 13, 2024 order requiring filing of the case appeal statement in the district court and submission of a file-stamped copy to the Supreme Court within seven days, with explicit warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal as abandoned. Appellant did not comply, and the court dismissed the appeal accordingly.

In plain language

When a person appeals a decision in Nevada, they must file certain paperwork to get the appeal started. One required document is called a "case appeal statement" - a short form that gives the appellate court basic information about the case being appealed. In this case, Mr. Gonzalez filed a notice of appeal but did not include the case appeal statement. The Nevada Supreme Court sent him a notice on December 3, 2024, telling him to file it. When he still had not filed it, the court issued a follow-up order on December 13, 2024, giving him seven more days and warning that failure to comply could result in the appeal being dismissed as abandoned. Mr. Gonzalez did not file the required statement. As a result, the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal without reaching the merits of whatever family-court ruling he was challenging.