Case Name: In the Matter of Carpeah N., Appellant. Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2010-10-19
Citations: 77 A.D.3d 836
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Carpeah N., Appellant. Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 836–836

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Carpeah N., Appellant. Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, Respondent.
[909 NYS2d 374]

Opinion:
In a proceeding for permission to administer antipsychotic drugs to a patient without his consent, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), dated August 12, 2009, which granted the petition.
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
The appellant was discharged from Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center in the fall of 2009 and is no longer subject to the involuntary medication order appealed from. Accordingly, the instant appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the appellant's contention, the appeal does not fall within an exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]; Matter of David C., 69 NY2d 796, 798 [1987]; Matter of Sylvie J., 233 AD2d 446 [1996]). Skelos, J.P., Eng, Belen and Hall, JJ., concur.