Portage Cnty. v. J.W.K. (In Re Mental Commitment of J.W.K.)

*513 *678 ¶1 An issue is moot when its resolution will have no practical effect on the underlying controversy. In this review of a Chapter 51 recommitment order, we consider whether J.W.K.'s sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge to the 2016 order extending his commitment is rendered moot because the 2016 order expired after the court extended his commitment in 2017 under a separate order. 1 Reversing the expired 2016 order for insufficient evidence would have no effect on subsequent *679 recommitment orders because later orders stand on their own under the language of the statute. We therefore hold that…