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24-6050·CIVIL RIGHTS

Gerald Hopper v. Garry McFadden

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

Whether inmate raised triable factual issues concerning jail's alleged policy or custom not to perform or make referrals for colostomy reversal surgery.

Argument Date
September 17, 2026
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Reidinger

Panel

Judge Agee
Judge Thacker
Judge Berner

Citation

CaseGerald Hopper v. Garry McFadden, No. 24-6050 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 17, 2026)
PanelAgee, Thacker & Berner, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 3 cases argued September 17, 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 3 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 5, 2026 and April 23, 2027, with December 11, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 41 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (144 prior subject cases + 5 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 →

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