Keene v. Houghton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “clear and convincing evidence” requirement in civil-commitment statute requires same heightened legal-sufficiency standard that applies in termination-of-parental-rights cases
• holding that the mootness doctrine did not apply to an expired involuntary commitment order
• holding that the term “overt act” within the meaning of section 574.034(d) of the health and safety code includes verbal statements, as well as physical acts
• stating that the standard requires that the overt act be probative that serious harm to others is probable
• recognizing that “reasonable probability” is 26 synonymous with “likelihood”’
• noting that the expiration of the time for which [K.E.W.] was ordered to receive temporary inpatient mental health services did not require the appeal to be dismissed for mootness

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