Matter of Maurice M. (Norton)

Matter of Maurice M. (Norton) 2016 NY Slip Op 03176 Decided on April 27, 2016 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on April 27, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ.
2014-08618
(Index No. 300904/14)

[*1]In the Matter of Maurice M. (Anonymous), appellant. Andrea Norton, etc., respondent.

Steven A. Feldman, Uniondale, NY, for appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, NY (Claude S. Platton and Mark H. Shawhan of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

In a proceeding for permission to administer medication to a patient without his consent, Maurice M. appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Graham, J.), dated July 3, 2014, which, after a hearing, granted the petition.

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The order appealed from expired by its own terms during the pendency of this appeal. Accordingly, this appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the appellant's contention, the appeal does not fall within the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Anonymous v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 70 NY2d 972, 974; Matter of Maurice M. [Kinyamu], 125 AD3d 660; Matter of Carpeah N. [Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Ctr.], 77 AD3d 836).

RIVERA, J.P., BALKIN, DICKERSON and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court