On December 13, the Eleventh Circuit refused to rehear Hall v Merrill, 16-16766.  This is the case challenging the requirement that independent candidates for U.S. House in special elections need a petition of 3% of the last gubernatorial vote.  The U.S. District Court had struck down the requirement.  But the Eleventh Circuit had ruled that the case is moot, and therefore the precedent established by the U.S. District Court is erased, and if a future independent candidate challenges the same law, he or she must start an entirely new lawsuit.  The conclusion that such cases are moot contradicts many U.S. Supreme Court precedents.  The plaintiff plans to ask for U.S. Supreme Court review.