In the Matter of the Necessity for the Hospitalization of Reid K.

Summary

The court dismissed Reid K.'s appeal of an expired involuntary commitment order as moot. Reid's later 90-day court-ordered commitment, based on his stipulation that he was mentally ill and likely to cause harm, subsumed any collateral consequences of the earlier order, and the appeal presented fact-bound sufficiency challenges that did not qualify for the public interest exception. The court also clarified that the State should ordinarily move to dismiss such appeals before merits briefing begins.