IN RE: Danielle DILL (2023)

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. MICHAEL P., Respondent-Appellant.

540 Decided: June 09, 2023

PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., LINDLEY, CURRAN, BANNISTER, AND OGDEN, JJ.

TODD G. MONAHAN, LITTLE FALLS, FOR RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. LETITIA JAMES, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (CHRISTOPHER LIBERATI-CONANT 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 granting petitioner's application for authorization to administer medication to respondent over his objection. The order, inter alia, provided that “the [o]rder shall terminate” upon respondent's discharge from civil hospitalization. Because respondent has been discharged from civil hospitalization and transferred to a correctional facility, the order terminated by its own terms, rendering this appeal moot (see generally Matter of McGrath, 245 A.D.2d 1081, 1082, 667 N.Y.S.2d 550 [4th Dept. 1997]), and this case does not fall within the exception to the mootness doctrine (see id.; see generally Matter of Hearst Corp. v. Clyne, 50 N.Y.2d 707, 714-715, 431 N.Y.S.2d 400, 409 N.E.2d 876 [1980]).

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