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25-1877·CIVIL

Muminatou Bah v. Sampson Bladen Oil Company, Inc.

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

Whether district court erred in granting summary judgment for employer on race-based discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination claims; related issues.

Argument Date
March 18, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Flanagan

Panel

Judge Wilkinson
Judge Niemeyer
Judge King

Citation

CaseMuminatou Bah v. Sampson Bladen Oil Company, Inc., No. 25-1877 (4th Cir. argued Mar. 18, 2026)
PanelWilkinson, Niemeyer & King, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued March 18, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

Between the uncredited panelists, Judge Wilkinson and Judge Niemeyer are a coin flip — 102 of 114 vs. 104 of 129 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion.

2 of the 3 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 4, 2026 and August 7, 2027, with December 19, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 224 days ago. About 93% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 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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