IN RE: DANIELLE DILL (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.

IN RE: DANIELLE DILL, PSY.D., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL NEW YORK PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, v. THOMAS K., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

633 Decided: October 03, 2025

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., CURRAN, SMITH, OGDEN, AND HANNAH, JJ.

ELIZABETH S. FORTINO, DIRECTOR, MENTAL HYGIENE LEGAL SERVICE, SYRACUSE (NATHANIEL V. RILEY OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. LETITIA JAMES, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (BRIAN LUSIGNAN OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-RESPONDENT.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

It is hereby ORDERED that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.

Memorandum: Respondent appeals from an order that, inter alia, granted petitioner's application for an order authorizing the involuntary treatment of respondent. The order has since expired, rendering this appeal moot (see Matter of Blossom V. [Reddy], 230 AD3d 1552, 1552-1553 [4th Dept 2024]; Matter of Upstate Univ. Hosp. v Bryant W., 224 AD3d 1340, 1341 [4th Dept 2024]), and this case does not fall within the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of McGrath, 245 AD2d 1081, 1082 [4th Dept 1997]; see generally Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]).

Entered: October 3, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court

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