Beeman v. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

HARRELL, Judge.

Appellant, Arlena Beeman, appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Allegany County (Sharer, J.) that affirmed the order of an administrative law judge dismissing her appeal from the decision by a clinical review panel to administer certain antipsychotic medications to her forcibly. In this appeal, we consider whether § 10-708(k) of the Health-General Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland comports with the requirements for due process contained in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 24 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. The…