MATTER OF CASILLAS v. HARLEM VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CTR.


129 A.D.2d 577 (1987)

In the Matter of Oscar Casillas, Appellant, v. Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 6, 1987


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

The three-month detention order in question expired, by its own terms, in October 1986. Thereafter, the patient Oscar Casillas signed a voluntary request for hospitalization. Thus, the instant appeal is moot because the rights and interests of the parties will not be directly affected by a determination on the merits (see, Matter...

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