In 2017, a U.S. District Court in Florida ruled that the state’s procedures for ex-felons to ask the Governor to restore their voting rights violates due process, because it gave the Governor complete discretion, with no objective standards. The state appealed and got the opinion stayed.

On January 10, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit said the case is moot, and terminated it. The opinion says that in November 2018, when Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment ending ex-felon disenfranchisement for most crimes, the law changed so drastically that the Hand case doesn’t matter any more.