As noted much earlier, on March 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C., struck down a Federal Election Commission ruling that limited the amount of money an individual may donate to a new political party to $5,000. That decision was Unity08 v FEC, 08-5526.

The federal government has not asked for a rehearing en banc in the Unity08 decision, and the deadline for doing that has now passed.

It is still theoretically possible that the government could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision. The deadline for that would be May 31.