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23-6882·CIVIL

Nathan Barnett v. Cabell County Commission

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

Challenge to district court’s dismissal of Monell claim against defendant county based on prosecutors’ role in wrongful conviction.

Argument Date
May 8, 2024
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Chambers

Panel

Judge Wynn
Judge Benjamin
Senior Judge Keenan

Citation

CaseNathan Barnett v. Cabell County Commission, No. 23-6882 (4th Cir. argued May 8, 2024)
PanelKeenan, S.J., Wynn & Benjamin, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued May 8, 2024 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 2 decided siblings already credited to Senior Judge Keenan and Judge Benjamin, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Wynn's — they wrote at least one opinion in 82 of their 108 prior multi-case days.

2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Senior Judge Keenan and Judge Benjamin.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 23, 2026 and October 15, 2029, with May 12, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 903 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 + 3 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 →