DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH v. KELLY

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen A. Ellis, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, and Tracee Orlove Fruman, Staff Attorney, of Baltimore), on brief for appellant.

Suzanne Sangree (Roscoe Jones, Jr., Public Justice Center, of Baltimore, Laura Cain and Irene Smith of Maryland Disability Law Center of Baltimore), on brief for appellee.

Melvin J. Sykes, Joanne E. Pollak, Vice President and General Counsel Johns Hopkins Medicine, Frederick Savage, Deputy General Counsel, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, brief of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, and the Hopkins University, Amici Curiae.

David Rocah, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Baltimore, John Townsend Rich, Melissa Briggs Hutchens, Goldwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, and the National Mental Health Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.