IN RE: PETITION BY CLARK (CHILD CUSTODY)
24-47406 · 89498 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA) · December 11, 2024
Disposition:Appeal dismissed.Custody & RelocationPosture Alfred Clark appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court in a matter involving Ebony Meshell Jones, originating from the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division (Hon. Stacy Michelle Rocheleau). The court had previously struck Clark's docketing statement as deficient and ordered him to re-file a conforming statement within 14 days.
Key holdings
Practitioner summary
The Supreme Court entered a clerk's order dismissing the appeal for failure to comply with a prior order directing appellant to cure a deficient docketing statement within 14 days. The November 15, 2024 order had expressly cautioned that noncompliance would result in dismissal. Because appellant did not timely file a conforming docketing statement, the court dismissed the appeal without reaching any substantive issue. The order cites no statutes, rules, or case law.
In plain language
This is a one-page housekeeping order from the Nevada Supreme Court, not a ruling on the merits of any custody dispute. When someone files an appeal in Nevada, they must submit a "docketing statement" - a standardized form that gives the court basic information about the case. Alfred Clark filed one, but it did not meet the court's requirements. On November 15, 2024, the Supreme Court struck Clark's deficient docketing statement and gave him 14 days to fix it and re-file. The court warned that if he did not, his appeal would be dismissed. He did not file a conforming docketing statement within that deadline, and on December 11, 2024, the court dismissed the appeal. The court did not address the underlying child custody questions.
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