Case ID: ny-2d_55/html/1021-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Anonymous, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person, Appellant. Robert Cancro, as Director of Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Respondent.
    Argued February 8, 1982;
    decided February 25, 1982
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Michael Ambrosio, Clifford S. Karr and Ronald N. Gottlieb for appellant.
    
      Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Stephen J. McGrath and Leonard Koerner of counsel), for respondent.
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Thomas P. Dorsey and Shirley Adelson Siegel of counsel), in his statutory capacity pursuant to section 71 of the Executive Law.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, without costs. The Appellate Division did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the appeal to that court for mootness.

Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Meyer.