← Back to cases
25-1431·CIVIL RIGHTS

Tom Hutto v. City of Rock Hill

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

Propriety of district court's summary judgment grant to city on Plaintiff's constitutional challenges to ordinance regulating short term rentals; other issues.

Argument Date
March 19, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
III
Courtroom
Blue Courtroom (Room 339)
Lower Court Judge
Currie

Panel

Judge Wynn
Judge Thacker
Judge Berner

Citation

CaseTom Hutto v. City of Rock Hill, No. 25-1431 (4th Cir. argued Mar. 19, 2026)
PanelWynn, Thacker & Berner, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 3 cases argued March 19, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

2 opinions remain pending on this panel day. The remaining opinions could come from any panelist who hasn't already been credited with a sibling.

1 of the 3 opinions from this panel has been decided.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 4, 2026 and August 24, 2027, with December 24, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 223 days ago. About 90% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (144 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 →

Oral Argument Audio