Treating a claim of appeal as an application for leave to appeal; Mootness

Holding that the court “may, in the interest of judicial economy, exercise its discretion to treat respondent’s claim of appeal as an application for leave to appeal, grant leave, and address the issue presented[,]” and did so here, the court dismissed the appeal as moot. In this delinquency proceeding, respondent claimed “an appeal from a nondispositional order continuing his placement at the Wayne County Detention Center until a level two secure probation placement became available.” Respondent conceded “that the order was not appealable by right and requests leave to appeal that order.” The record reflected that he “was moved out of the detention center and placed at a facility on level two secure probation in” 7/24. Because he had “already been moved out of the detention center, it [was] impossible for this Court to fashion a remedy and thus any issue regarding respondent’s continued placement at the detention facility” was moot.