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WILLIAMS v. WILZACK

No. 140, September Term, 1988.

319 Md. 485 (1990)

573 A.2d 809

LAQUINN K. WILLIAMS v. ADELE W. WILZACK ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied June 25, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathy S. Surace (Andrew S. Penn, Linda Potter, all on brief), Upper Marlboro, for appellant.

Susan Goering, Baltimore, Arthur Spitzer and Elizabeth Symonds, Washington, D.C., Robert Plotkin, Sheila Kraft Budoff, Laxalt, Wash., Perito & Dubuc, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae, for American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and American Civil Liberties Union of the Nat. Capital Area.

Susan Sugar Nathan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Janet Klein Brown, Sp. Atty., all on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Varda N. Fink of Baltimore, amicus curiae, for Johns Hopkins Hosp. Inc. and The Maryland Psychiatric Soc., Inc.

John R. Metz and Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, amicus curiae, for Chestnut Lodge Hosp., Inc.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of Maryland statutes governing the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to involuntarily committed mental patients in non-emergency situations.

I.

Maryland Code (1982, 1988 Cum.Supp.), Subtitle 7 of Title 10 of the Health-General Article is entitled, "Rights of Mentally Ill Individuals in Facilities." Section 10-701(c) of the subtitle provides that each mentally...

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