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22-2162·CIVIL

Tracie Beard v. John Hiester Chevrolet, LLC

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether website's Terms of Service authorizing marketing but not specifically prerecorded calls qualifies as prior express written consent under the TCPA; other issues.

Argument Date
January 26, 2024
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Dever

Panel

Judge Gregory
Judge Thacker
Judge Richardson

Citation

CaseTracie Beard v. John Hiester Chevrolet, LLC, No. 22-2162 (4th Cir. argued Jan. 26, 2024)
PanelGregory, Thacker & Richardson, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 2 cases argued January 26, 2024 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the decided sibling already credited to Judge Gregory, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Richardson's — they wrote at least one opinion in 98 of their 122 prior multi-case days.

1 of the 2 opinions from this panel has been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Gregory.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 26, 2026 and February 15, 2030, with June 3, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1006 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (100% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 prior subject cases + 2 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →