In re J.B.

In these consolidated cases, three otherwise-unrelated patients, J.B., E.J., and E.E. (collectively, “Patients”), each appeal the trial court’s denial of his waiver of a hearing, pursuant to G.L.c. 123, §6(b), on Bridgewater State Hospital’s (“Bridgewater”) petition to commit him.2 Patient E.E. further argues that, as Bridgewater “will realize precisely the same result it had sought in the Trial Court regardless of the resolution of the instant matter,” and therefore can suffer no legally cognizable injury as a consequence of its inability to argue on E.E.’s appeal, Bridgewater lacks standing…