Cobey LaKemper v. Kenneth Lassiter
- Scheduled
- Argued (current)
- Opinion Issued
Whether NC Department of Adult Corrections prohibition against incarcerated individuals assisting another person with litigation or legal matters violates the First Amendment; other issues.
Panel
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Arguing Counsel
Panel That Day
3 of 4 cases argued October 22, 2025 before this panel have been decided.
With the 3 decided siblings already credited to Judge Wynn and Judge Wilkinson, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Rushing's — they wrote at least one opinion in 75 of their 109 prior multi-case days.
3 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Wynn and Judge Wilkinson.
This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.
Predicted Opinion Release
Likely between November 11, 2026 and April 11, 2028, with February 9, 2027 the most likely date.
Argued 371 days ago. About 91% 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 →