( November 4, 2026, 10:13 AM EST) -- ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland appeals court dismissed the Maryland Department of Health’s (DOH) appeal of a lower court order finding it in contempt for not following an involuntary civil commitment order requiring DOH to admit a man to a psychiatric facility, finding that the lower court’s vacatur of the contempt order while the appeal was pending mooted the appeal and noting a DOH employee’s testimony describing the impact of COVID-19 on available DOH beds....