JACOB SOVEY JACOB HERRICK SOVEY v. SAMANTHA HERRICK (2025)

ORDER DENYING EMERGENCY PETITION

This original emergency petition for a writ of mandamus seeks a writ disqualifying the underlying district court judge from presiding over petitioner's family law case. A writ of mandamus is available to compel the performance of an act that the law requires as a duty resulting from an office, NRS 34.160, or to control an arbitrary or capricious exercise of discretion, Int'l Game Tech., Inc. v. Second Jud. Dist. Ct., 124 Nev. 193, 197, 179 P.3d 556, 558 (2008). The decision to entertain a mandamus petition is within our sole discretion, and the petitioner has the burden of demonstrating that such extraordinary relief is warranted. Pan v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004). Having considered the petition and supporting appendix, petitioner has not demonstrated that our extraordinary relief is warranted and we therefore

ORDER the petition DENIED.

Bulla, C.J.

Gibbons, J.

Westbrook, J.