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IN RE ADOPTION/G'SHIP OF DUSTIN R.

No. 24, Sept. Term, 2015.

128 A.3d 80 (2015)

445 Md. 536

In re Adoption/Guardianship of DUSTIN R.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 21, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell Y. Mirviss (Venable, LLP, Rockville, MD; Margaret F. Holmes , Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Annapolis, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Kathleen A. Ellis , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Julia Doyle Bernhardt , Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Raymond L. Marshall, Esq. , Chason, Rosner, Leary & Marshall, LLC, Towson, MD, for Amici Curiae brief of Maryland Disability Law Center, Inc., the ARC Maryland, Inc., the Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health, the Maryland Association of Community Services, Accessible Resources for Independence, Inc., the League for People with Disabilities, the Freedom Center, Inc., and the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland, Inc. in support of Petitioner.

Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, Esq. , Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Esq. , Shirley C. Woodward, Esq. , Lauren N. Moore, Esq. , Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae brief of First Star, Inc., et al., in support of Petitioner Dustin R.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD, WATTS, GLENN T. HARRELL, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

This case concerns whether the Court of Special Appeals erred in dismissing on its own initiative an appeal by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ("DHMH"), Respondent, and whether the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, sitting as a juvenile court ("the juvenile court"), had the authority to order DHMH to continue to provide...

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