Court Opinion

ID: 4463532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-12-12 15:05:55.54089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:53:41.560241
License: Public Domain

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

 PETER KOSTYSHYN,                          §
                                           §
       Defendant Below,                    §   No. 468, 2019
       Appellant,                          §
                                           §   Court Below: Superior Court
       v.                                  §   of the State of Delaware
                                           §
 GOVERNOR HOUSE, INC. d/b/a                §   C.A. No. N19C-08-027
 GOVERNOR HOUSE                            §
 CONDOMINIUMS,                             §
                                           §
       Plaintiff Below,                    §
       Appellee.                           §

                           Submitted: November 26, 2019
                            Decided: December 11, 2019

                                      ORDER

      (1)    On November 12, 2019, the appellant filed a notice of appeal in a

mortgage foreclosure action. The notice of appeal did not identify an order from

which the appeal was taken, and the Superior Court docket did not reflect that the

court had issued any final judgment in the case. Indeed, it appears that the case

currently remains in very early stages.

      (2)    On November 13, 2019, the Clerk issued a notice, by certified mail,

directing the appellant to show cause why the Court should not dismiss the appeal

(i) because the Superior Court has not entered any appealable order and the appeal

is interlocutory; and (ii) for the appellant’s failure to pay the filing fee, as required

by Supreme Court Rule 20 and this Court’s order dated June 9, 2015, in Kostyshyn
v. State, No. 160, 2015.1

       (3)     The appellant is incarcerated in the Howard R. Young Correctional

Institution. On November 18, 2019, the Court received the certified mail receipt

indicating that the notice to show cause had been delivered on November 15, 2019.

On November 25, 2019, the postal service returned the notice to show cause to the

Court; the envelope was marked “return to sender” and indicated that the appellant

had refused to accept the mail. The Superior Court docket reflects that the appellant

is also refusing to accept mail from that court and opposing counsel.

       (4)     The appellant having failed to respond to the notice to show cause

within the required ten-day period, dismissal of this action is deemed to be

unopposed.

       NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rules 3(b)

and 29(b), that the appeal is DISMISSED.

                                              BY THE COURT:

                                              /s/ James T. Vaughn, Jr.
                                              Justice

1
  See Kostyshyn v. State 2015 WL 3647273 (Del. June 9, 2015) (“[A]s we previously held in a
prior appeal, Kostyshyn ‘has far exceeded his “three strikes”’ under the in forma pauperis statute.
Kostyshyn has filed countless frivolous complaints, petitions, appeals, and writs in both the state
and federal courts. He has lost the privilege to file in forma pauperis, except as allowed under
Section 8804(f). Thus, in future, Kostyshyn may not file a civil appeal or writ in this Court without
the accompanying filing fee, unless the Court deems the matter exempt under Section 8804(f), or
else the matter will be dismissed.” (citation omitted)).

                                                 2