RADDEN VS. RADDEN (FAMILY)
Posture Appellant Joyce Lorraine Radden filed a notice of withdrawal of her appeal in a family-law matter. The Supreme Court of Nevada treated the notice as a motion for voluntary dismissal and dismissed the appeal.
Key holdings
- Treating appellant's notice of withdrawal of appeal as a motion for voluntary dismissal, the court granted the motion and dismissed the appeal under NRAP 42.
Practitioner summary
The appellant filed a notice of withdrawal of appeal, which the court treated as a motion for voluntary dismissal. Citing NRAP 42, the court found cause appearing and granted the motion, dismissing the appeal. The order resolves the matter procedurally and contains no analysis of the merits, no standard of review, and no substantive holding.
In plain language
This is a very short order ending an appeal before the court decided anything about the underlying dispute. The person who had brought the appeal, Joyce Lorraine Radden, told the court she wanted to withdraw it - in other words, she no longer wished to pursue the appeal.
The court treated her notice of withdrawal as a request to voluntarily dismiss the appeal. Finding reason to grant that request, the court dismissed the appeal. The order does not describe what the appeal was about, what the lower court had decided, or any arguments on the merits.
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