Waldrop v. Bell ( 2019 )

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
WYATT WALDROP,1 §
§ No. 108, 2019
Respondent Below, §
Appellant, §
§
v. § Court Below–Family Court
§ of the State of Delaware
PIPER BELL, §
§ File No. CN16-01555
Petitioner Below, § Petition No. 19-03991
Appellee. §
Submitted: March 29, 2019
Decided: April 4, 2019
ORDER
After careful consideration of the Notice to Show Cause, it appears to the
Court that:
(1) The appellant, Wyatt Waldrop, filed this appeal from a Family Court
Commissioner’s February 27, 2019 order, which Waldrop describes in his notice of
appeal as a protection from abuse order. The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice
under Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing Waldrop to show cause why his appeal
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The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d).
should not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider an appeal
from the decision of a Family Court Commissioner.2
(2) Waldrop failed to respond to the Notice to Show Cause within the
required ten-day period. Under these circumstances, dismissal of the appeal is
deemed to be unopposed.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, under Supreme Court
Rules 3(b)(2) and 26(b), that the appeal is DISMISSED.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr.
Justice
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See Redden v. McGill, 549 A.2d 695, 698 (Del. 1988) (holding that findings and
recommendations of masters that have not been subject to meaningful judicial review are not
deemed final judgments appealable to this Court).
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