Robert Whittaker, III v. Howard County, Maryland
- Scheduled
- Argued (current)
- Opinion Issued
Propriety of district court's summary judgment grant to employer on Plaintiff's ADEA claim challenging his termination from fire and rescue service training academy.
Panel
Citation
Arguing Counsel
Panel That Day
2 of 3 cases argued January 27, 2026 before this panel have been decided.
With the 2 decided siblings already credited to Senior Judge Floyd, Judge Harris edges out Judge Benjamin as the likely author — though the gap between their track records is narrow.
2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Senior Judge Floyd.
This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.
Predicted Opinion Release
Likely between November 8, 2026 and December 4, 2027, with January 15, 2027 the most likely date.
Argued 274 days ago. About 83% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.
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 →