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MOTHER’S APPEALS FROM EXPIRED PERMANENCY HEARING ORDERS (RE: CHILDREN’S PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE) WERE PROPERLY DISMISSED AS MOOT, TWO COMPREHENSIVE DISSENTING OPINIONS (THREE DISSENTING JUDGES) (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Troutman, over two comprehensive dissenting opinions (three judges), determined the Appellate Division had properly dismissed mother’s appeals of expired permanency hearing orders (re: children’s placement in foster care) as moot, and properly declined to hear the appeals under an exception to the mootness doctrine:

Generally, ” ‘an appeal will be considered moot unless the rights of the parties will be directly affected by the determination of the appeal and the interest of the parties is an immediate consequence of the judgment’ ” … . Here, the Appellate Division properly determined that the mother’s appeals are moot. At the time the Appellate Division entered its decisions, both permanency hearing orders were “superseded by subsequent permanency hearing orders, which continued the child’s placement in foster care” … . * * *

… [T]he Appellate Division did not abuse its discretion in determining that the issues raised below were “not sufficiently substantial or novel to warrant an exercise of [its] exceptional discretion to retain the appeal despite mootness” … . Matter of Joshua J. (Tameka J.), 2025 NY Slip Op 03010, CtApp 5-20-25

Practice Point: Consult this opinion for concise explanations of the appellate mootness doctrine and the application of an exception to the mootness doctrine.

 

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