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24-1928·JURISDICTION

Marilyn Hernandez v. Bloomingdales, LLC

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

Whether district court erred in concluding that Bloomingdales is not subject to specific personal jurisdiction in Maryland.

Argument Date
September 9, 2025
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Griggsby

Panel

Judge Agee
Judge Heytens
Judge Berner

Citation

CaseMarilyn Hernandez v. Bloomingdales, LLC, No. 24-1928 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 9, 2025)
PanelAgee, Heytens & Berner, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

3 of 4 cases argued September 9, 2025 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 3 decided siblings already credited to Judge Berner and Judge Agee, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Heytens's — they wrote at least one opinion in 70 of their 87 prior multi-case days.

3 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Berner and Judge Agee.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 9, 2026 and March 15, 2028, with January 28, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 414 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (98% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (45 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 →