JOSE FABELA COCA v. VERONICA BECERRA FABELA (2024)

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL

This is an appeal from a district court order denying an objection to a master's recommendation to extend a temporary order for protection against domestic violence. Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Dixie Grossman, Judge.

When initial review of the docketing statement and documents before this court revealed a potential jurisdictional defect, this court ordered appellant to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. In particular, it did not appear that the challenged order was substantively appealable because no statute or court rule specifically allows an appeal from an order denying an objection to a master's recommendation to extend a temporary order for protection against domestic violence. See Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013) (this court “may only consider appeals authorized by statute or court rule”). It also did not appear that the order was appealable as an order refusing to dissolve an injunction as suggested by appellant in the docketing statement.

In response, appellant states that he can find no authority suggesting the order is appealable and cites two unpublished orders entered by this court concluding that such orders are not appealable. Respondent has not filed any reply. As no statute or court rule authorizes an appeal from the challenged order, this court lacks jurisdiction, id., and

ORDERS this appeal DISMISSED.

Herndon, J.

Lee, J.

Bell, J.