Involuntary Commitments Orders Don’t Become Moot Merely Because Confinement Has Ended

In re Civil Commitment of C.M., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  The doctrine of mootness enables courts to avoid disputes that are not “live.”  Today’s opinion by Judge Fisher, in the context of three appeals that pose the same issue involving persons who were involuntarily committed, rightly concluded that those persons, the appellants […]

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