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24-1650·CIVIL

Appalachian Voices v. FERC

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

Petition for review of agency rulemaking related to long-term planning for energy transmission.

Argument Date
September 15, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)
Associated Cases
24-1748, 24-1756, 24-1758, 24-1760, 24-1765, 24-1770, 24-1785, 24-1804, 24-1857, 24-1862, 24-1867, 24-1876, 24-1885, 24-1887, 24-1979, 24-1991, 24-2162, 24-2163, 25-1073, 25-1080, 25-1197, 25-1349

Panel

Judge King
Judge Thacker
Judge Heytens

Citation

CaseAppalachian Voices v. FERC, No. 24-1650 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 15, 2026)
PanelKing, Thacker & Heytens, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

D. Rocha
per CA4 audio archive
B. Calleros
per CA4 audio archive
J. Fish
per CA4 audio archive
D. Fidler
per CA4 audio archive
R. Elliott
per CA4 audio archive
Michelle Kallen
per CA4 audio archive
Susanna Chu
per CA4 audio archive
C. Carter
per CA4 audio archive
S. Johnson
per CA4 audio archive
J. Perkins
per CA4 audio archive

Panel That Day

0 of 2 cases argued September 15, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 2 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 4, 2026 and March 22, 2027, with December 5, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 43 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (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 →

Oral Argument Audio

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