LINDSEY HARMON AN INDIVIDUAL v. BARBARA CEGAVSKE IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS NEVADA SECRETARY OF STATE AND PROTECT OUR GIRLS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (2022)

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL

This is an appeal from a district court order denying appellant's complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief related to a ballot initiative petition. First Judicial District Court, Carson City; Robert E. Estes, Senior Judge.

The deadline for gathering signatures for 2022 statutory ballot measures was November 23, 2022. NRS 295.056(2) (providing that the documents for an initiative proposing a statutory amendment must be submitted within 15 days of the general election). Because the record did not show that respondent Protect Our Girls PAC gathered the requisite signatures and the deadline for doing so had since passed, we directed the parties to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as moot.

Respondents did not respond to the order to show cause. Appellant responded, stating that this matter is moot because Protect Our Girls PAC did not submit documents with sufficient signatures to the counties or respondent Secretary of State. As it appears that insufficient signatures were gathered and the initiative petition at issue therefore will not proceed in the initiative process, we conclude that this appeal is moot. See Personhood Nev. v. Bristol, 126 Nev. 599, 602-03, 245 P.3d 572, 574-75 (2010) (dismissing an appeal in a ballot initiative matter as moot because the initiative proponents did not submit sufficient signatures by the deadline, preventing this court from granting effective relief from the challenged order). Accordingly, we

ORDER this appeal DISMISSED.¹

Parraguirre, J.

Hardesty, J.

Stiglich, J.

Cadish, J.

Pickering, J.

Herndon, J.

FOOTNOTES

1.   The Honorable Patricia Lee did not participate in this matter.