Case Name: Care and Protection of Lorraine
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1996-03-05
Citations: 422 Mass. 1001
Docket Number: 
Parties: Care and Protection of Lorraine.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 422
Pages: 1001–1001

Head Matter:
Care and Protection of Lorraine.
March 5, 1996.
Supreme Judicial Court,
Superintendence of inferior courts.
Robert A. Sherman (Peter F. Carr with him) for the mother.
Katherine M. Potter for Department of Social Services.
Pamela B. Bankert (.Alison Lowe with her) for the minors.
Jinanne S.J. Elder & Amy M. Karp, Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Opinion:
Because the underlying order in the trial court that was the subject of this G. L. c. 211, § 3 (1994 ed.), proceeding has been vacated, the appeal from a single justice's order concerning the trial court's order is moot. The order of the single justice is vacated, and a judgment shall be entered dismissing the petition as moot and not on the merits.
So ordered.