Christopher Hampton v. Jonathan Nance
- Scheduled
- Argued (current)
- Opinion Issued
Whether the district court erred in denying 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition alleging ineffective assistance of trial and postconviction relief counsel.
Panel
Citation
Arguing Counsel
Panel That Day
0 of 3 cases argued October 14, 2026 before this panel have been decided.
No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 3 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.
This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.
Predicted Opinion Release
Likely between December 3, 2026 and July 27, 2027, with February 2, 2027 the most likely date.
Argued 14 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.
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 →