Case Title: Kostyshyn v. New Castle County

Citation: 

Docket Number: 116, 2023

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
PATRICIA KOSTSHYN, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, 
 
Plaintiff Below 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 116, 2023 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  C.A. No. N22J-02871 
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Submitted: July 19, 2023 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: July 27, 2023 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; TRAYNOR and GRIFFITHS, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
After consideration of the notice to show cause and the appellant’s response, 
it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The appellant, Patricia Kostyshyn, filed this appeal from a monition 
action in the Superior Court.  On May 8, 2023, the Clerk’s office extended the record 
deadline, at the Superior Court Deputy Prothonotary’s request, so that the Superior 
Court could provide Kostyshyn with a form motion to proceed in forma pauperis.  
On June 12, 2023, the Deputy Prothonotary submitted a letter stating that the court 
had sent Kostyshyn the form motion, but the appellant had not paid the Superior 
Court’s appeal preparation fee or filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis as to 
that fee.  The Clerk’s office sent Kostyshyn a letter withdrawing the record deadline 
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and directing her to pay the Superior Court appeal preparation fee by June 22, 2023, 
or a notice to show cause would issue.  Kostyshyn did not pay the Superior Court 
fee as directed or file a motion to proceed in forma pauperis as to that fee.    
(2) 
On June 27, 2023, the Clerk’s office issued a notice, by certified mail, 
directing Kostyshyn to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed for her 
failure to pay the Superior Court appeal preparation fee.  Postal records show that 
the notice has been moving through the network since July 3, 2023.  On July 14, 
2023, the Clerk’s office reissued the notice to show cause by first class mail.  The 
Court’s correspondence and notices to show cause were sent to the address that 
Kostyshyn provided, and continues to provide, to this Court. 
(3) 
On July 19, 2023, Kostyshyn filed documents in this appeal that are 
deemed to be her response to the notice to show cause.1  The documents do not 
address her failure to pay the Superior Court appeal preparation fee or file a motion 
to proceed in forma pauperis as to that fee.  In light of Kostyshyn’s failure to pay 
the Superior Court appeal preparation fee, this appeal must be dismissed. 
 
 
 
1 It appears that on July 14, 2023, appellee’s counsel emailed the notice to show cause to 
Kostyshyn. 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rule 29(b), 
that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
/s/ N. Christopher Griffiths 
Justice