MICHAEL SUNDE INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SOLE BENEFICIARY OF ERKP FAMILY TRUST AND VIKTORIYA SOKOL SUNDE INDIVIDUALLY v. VICTORIA CROCKETT INDIVIDUALLY AND IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF ERKP FAMILY TRUST IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS AN OFFICER OF NEVADA DIVORCE DOCUMENT SERVICES INC IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS AN OFFICER OR MEMBER OF CROCKETT COMMERCIAL LLC AND IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF VICTORIA CROCKETT FAMILY TRUST 2019 CROCKETT COMMERCIAL LLC AND VICTORIA CROCKETT FAMILY TRUST 2019 (2024)

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI OR PROHIBITION

This emergency pro se petition for a writ of certiorari or prohibition filed by J. Michael Sunde and Viktoriya Sokol Sunde challenges several actions and inactions of the district court in the litigation below.

Whether a petition for extraordinary writ relief will be entertained rests within this court's sound discretion. D.R. Horton, Inc. v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 123 Nev. 468, 474-75, 168 P.3d 731, 736-37 (2007), and it is petitioners’ burden to demonstrate that extraordinary relief is warranted, Pan v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004). Having reviewed the petition and supporting documents, we conclude that petitioners have failed to meet their burden. Significantly, writ petitions are not substitutes for an appeal, and petitioners have failed to show that an appeal would not provide an adequate legal remedy for their grievances here, thus precluding writ relief. Archon Corp. v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 133 Nev. 816, 819, 407 P.3d 702, 706 (2017) (recognizing that “[a] writ of mandamus is not a substitute for an appeal”); Pan, 120 Nev. at 224, 88 P.3d at 841 (“[T]he right to appeal is generally an adequate legal remedy that precludes writ relief.”). Accordingly, we ORDER the petition DENIED.

Cadish, C.J.

Stiglich, J.

Herndon, J.