MORGAN VS. AKBAR (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is a clerk-level dismissal for failure to comply with the docketing prerequisites of NRAP 3. The appeal was docketed July 22, 2025, without the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) and without proof of service of the notice of appeal required by NRAP 3(d). The court issued same-day notices giving appellant 14 days to cure - either by paying the fee or demonstrating in forma pauperis compliance under NRAP 24, and by filing proof of service - and warned that noncompliance would result in dismissal. Appellant did not cure or respond. The court dismissed pursuant to NRAP 3(a)(2). The order does not address the underlying family-law issues.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court, they have to do two basic housekeeping things: pay a filing fee (or show they qualify to have it waived) and prove that they served - that is, formally delivered - the notice of appeal on the other side. Jacob Morgan did neither when his appeal was docketed on July 22, 2025. The court sent him notices the same day telling him he had 14 days to fix both problems, and warned him that if he did not, his appeal would be dismissed. He did not pay, did not file proof of service, and did not respond to the court at all. Because of that, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal without ever reaching the merits of whatever dispute he had with Asia Akbar.