KHAN VS. PUENTE (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The court construed appellant's notice of withdrawal as a motion for voluntary dismissal under NRAP 42 and granted it, dismissing the appeal. No merits analysis, standard of review, or doctrinal discussion is presented in the order.

In plain language

This is a one-page clerk's order ending an appeal before the Nevada Supreme Court reached the merits. The appellant, Mary Stevens (now known as Mary Khan), had appealed a ruling from the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division (Judge Dedree Butler). Before the court decided the appeal, the appellant filed a notice withdrawing it. The Supreme Court treated that notice as a request to voluntarily dismiss the appeal and granted it. The case is over at the appellate level. The order does not describe the underlying family-law dispute, the lower court's ruling, or any legal issues that would have been argued.