GREEN VS. KELLER (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is a clerk's order of dismissal for failure to comply with appellate filing prerequisites under NRAP 3(e) and (f). The appeal was docketed January 20, 2027, without the filing fee and without the case appeal statement. The court issued same-day notices directing compliance within seven days, or, as to the fee, a demonstration of compliance with NRAP 24. The notices advised that nonpayment of the fee would result in dismissal and that failure to file the case appeal statement could result in sanctions including dismissal. Appellant did not pay the fee, did not file the case appeal statement, and did not respond to the notices. The court dismissed the appeal pursuant to NRAP 3(a)(2). The order resolves no substantive issue and announces no new doctrine; it is a routine compliance-based dismissal.

In plain language

This is a clerk's order ending an appeal before it ever got off the ground. When someone files an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court, court rules require two basic things at the start: paying a filing fee (or showing the appellant qualifies to proceed without paying) and filing a "case appeal statement," which is a short document identifying basic information about the case. When Dawn Marie Green's appeal was docketed, neither of those items had been submitted. The court sent notices the same day giving her seven days to pay the fee (or show she qualified for a fee waiver under NRAP 24) and to file the case appeal statement. The notices warned that not paying the fee would lead to dismissal, and that not filing the case appeal statement could also lead to sanctions including dismissal. According to the order, Green did not pay the fee, did not file the case appeal statement, and did not otherwise respond to the court's notices. Because of that, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the underlying family-court dispute or its merits.