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25-1375·CIVIL

Jesse Near v. Enerco Group, Inc.

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

Whether district court erred in granting summary judgment to manufacturer on design defect claim.

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

Panel

Judge Benjamin
Judge Berner
Judge Gibney*

Citation

CaseJesse Near v. Enerco Group, Inc., No. 25-1375 (4th Cir. argued Dec. 9, 2025)
PanelBenjamin, Berner & Gibney, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued December 9, 2025 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 2 decided siblings already credited to Judge Gibney*, Judge Benjamin and Judge Berner are the remaining candidates — and their records are too close to call (33 of 53 vs. 23 of 39 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion).

2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Gibney*.

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 January 19, 2028, with January 22, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 323 days ago. About 87% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■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 →