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25-2069·CIVIL

Carol Black v. Dennis Brice

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

Whether officer of insolvent wholly-owned subsidiary owes fiduciary duties to subsidiary itself such that it must consider creditor interests, rather than interests of parent corporation.

Argument Date
May 6, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
VI
Courtroom
Tan Courtroom (Room 223)
Lower Court Judge
Reidinger

Panel

Judge Wynn
Senior Judge Floyd
Judge Abelson*

Citation

CaseCarol Black v. Dennis Brice, No. 25-2069 (4th Cir. argued May 6, 2026)
PanelFloyd, S.J., Wynn & Abelson, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 3 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.

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 3, 2026 and June 15, 2027, with December 10, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 175 days ago. About 86% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 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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