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25-1430·CIVIL

Kristin Simmons v. UM Capital Region Health, Inc.

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

Whether district court erred granting summary judgment for employer on claims under ADA for disability discrimination, under FCA and MFCA for retaliatory discharge.

Argument Date
December 11, 2025
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)
Lower Court Judge
Maddox

Panel

Chief Judge Diaz
Judge Rushing
Judge Heytens

Citation

CaseKristin Simmons v. UM Capital Region Health, Inc., No. 25-1430 (4th Cir. argued Dec. 11, 2025)
PanelDiaz, C.J., Rushing & Heytens, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued December 11, 2025 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 2 decided siblings already credited to Judge Heytens and Chief Judge Diaz, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Rushing's — they wrote at least one opinion in 75 of their 109 prior multi-case days.

2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Heytens and Chief Judge Diaz.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 10, 2026 and February 24, 2028, with February 2, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 321 days ago. About 86% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 prior subject cases + 9 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 →