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25-1735·CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists v. Cleveland Horton, II

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

Whether district court erred in declining to preliminarily enjoin enforcement of MFEPA against General Conference of Seventh-Day plaintiff church related to hiring practices.

Argument Date
March 17, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
III
Courtroom
Blue Courtroom (Room 339)
Lower Court Judge
Chuang

Panel

Judge Wynn
Judge Quattlebaum
Senior Judge Floyd

Citation

CaseGeneral Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists v. Cleveland Horton, II, No. 25-1735 (4th Cir. argued Mar. 17, 2026)
PanelFloyd, S.J., Wynn & Quattlebaum, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 3 cases argued March 17, 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 11, 2027, with December 20, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 225 days ago. About 90% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (111 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 →

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