The corporations then asked all 15 Judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside the three-judge panel decision and re-hear their case. A majority of the Judges agreed with the corporations that the case should be reheard. The Eighth Circuit Court therefore vacated the three-judge decision upholding the statutes. The State of Minnesota asked the Eighth Circuit to reinstate the part of the panel decision that upheld the ban on corporate contributions to candidates.

Today the Eighth Circuit Court ruled that the full opinion is vacated and it will consider the constitutionality of the corporate contribution ban as well as the constitutionality of the ban on corporate general-fund independent expenditures.