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26-1328·CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Susan Hogarth v. Sam Hayes

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

First Amendment challenge to North Carolina's Ballot Selfie Ban.

Argument Date
September 15, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
III
Courtroom
Blue Courtroom (Room 339)
Lower Court Judge
Flanagan

Panel

Judge Quattlebaum
Judge Rushing
Judge Benjamin

Citation

CaseSusan Hogarth v. Sam Hayes, No. 26-1328 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 15, 2026)
PanelQuattlebaum, Rushing & Benjamin, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 4 cases argued September 15, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 4 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 November 16, 2026 and November 1, 2027, with February 2, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 43 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (111 prior subject cases + 5 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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