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25-1834·CIVIL

Elgin Separation Solutions, LLC v. David Dillon

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

Whether district court erred granting summary judgment, judgment as a matter of law on claims of trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract; related issues.

Argument Date
May 6, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)
Lower Court Judge
Berger

Panel

Judge Wilkinson
Judge King
Judge Gregory

Citation

CaseElgin Separation Solutions, LLC v. David Dillon, No. 25-1834 (4th Cir. argued May 6, 2026)
PanelWilkinson, King & Gregory, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 4 cases argued May 6, 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.

2 of the 4 opinions from this panel have 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 2, 2026 and June 11, 2027, with December 9, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 175 days ago. About 90% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 prior subject cases + 7 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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