Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 9, 2012 (Clark v. A.O. Smith Water Products)

The discontinuances in two of the actions and substitution of counsel in the other deprive appellant of any further controversy to have determined; there does not appear to be any exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]).