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23-1052·CIVIL

United States v. Enrique Lizano

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

Whether citizen-suit rights are inapplicable where EPA is proceeding in court after having issued an expiring administrative order, under § 303; related issues.

Argument Date
January 25, 2024
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Lydon

Panel

Judge King
Judge Benjamin
Senior Judge Keenan

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Enrique Lizano, No. 23-1052 (4th Cir. argued Jan. 25, 2024)
PanelKeenan, S.J., King & Benjamin, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

3 of 4 cases argued January 25, 2024 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

Between the uncredited panelists, Senior Judge Keenan and Judge King are a coin flip — 38 of 51 vs. 77 of 116 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion.

3 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided.

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 20, 2030, with June 4, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1007 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 + 4 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 →