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25-1936·CIVIL

SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC v. Frederick Hoover

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

Whether district court erred in dismissing claims alleging excessive fines, deprivation of right to jury trial related to civil penalties imposed by Maryland Public Service Commission.

Argument Date
May 5, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Abelson

Panel

Judge Rushing
Judge Heytens
Senior Judge Floyd

Citation

CaseSmartEnergy Holdings, LLC v. Frederick Hoover, No. 25-1936 (4th Cir. argued May 5, 2026)
PanelFloyd, S.J., Rushing & Heytens, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 4 cases argued May 5, 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 6, 2026 and September 18, 2027, with January 5, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 176 days ago. About 76% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

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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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