In the Matter of the Necessity for the Hospitalization of Dakota K

Summary

The court dismissed Dakota K.'s appeal from an involuntary commitment as moot because the commitment period had ended and Dakota did not establish a basis for the collateral-consequences exception. The court held that a respondent invoking that exception must make an evidentiary showing that the commitment was the respondent's first involuntary commitment or that other actual collateral consequences exist. Because Dakota made neither showing, the court did not reach the merits of his sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge.