Matter of Young

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered July 31, 2014, which, insofar as appealed from, denied petitioner’s application for the continued retention of respondent under Mental Hygiene Law § 9.39 (a), unanimously dismissed, without costs, as moot.

Respondent was involuntarily admitted as a psychiatric patient to petitioner Jacobi Medical Center on July 23, 2014. Jacobi thereafter filed an application pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 9.39 for authorization to retain respondent at the hospital, which respondent opposed. After a hearing, the court found that…