Court Opinion

ID: 5488041
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 02:19:43.961306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:42.999112
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The appeal should be dismissed, without costs, as moot.
Respondent City of New York has asked us to review whether it was error for the Appellate Division to conclude that it was arbitrary and capricious for the New York City Department of Correction to deny petitioner’s application to enter the nursery program at the Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island. We agree with petitioner that this proceeding is moot because her child is now of an age that renders him ineligible for participation in the nursery program pursuant to Correction Law § 611. Moreover, in light of the Department of Correction’s revised nursery order, effective February 11, 2013, we decline to invoke the mootness exception (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]).
Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Rivera concur.
Appeal dismissed, without costs, as moot, in a memorandum.