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25-1639·SOCIAL SECURITY

Christine Shaw-Callender v. Commissioner of Social Security

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

Whether the ALJ (a) reversibly erred in his consideration of the VA's Compensation and Pension Examination; or (b) impermissibly "cherry-picked" the medical evidence.

Argument Date
September 17, 2026
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)
Lower Court Judge
Bell

Panel

Judge Niemeyer
Judge Gregory
Judge Richardson

Citation

CaseChristine Shaw-Callender v. Commissioner of Social Security, No. 25-1639 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 17, 2026)
PanelNiemeyer, Gregory & Richardson, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 4 cases argued September 17, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

3 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 4 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 10, 2026 and June 3, 2027, with December 28, 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 (20 prior subject cases + 15 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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