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Florida Supreme Court Refuses to End Non-Unanimous Death Verdicts
The state executed nearly four times as many people as any other state in 2025.
Columbus City School District v. State
Trial court found the state’s recently expanded EdChoice school voucher program violates the state constitution’s requirement of “a thorough and efficient system of common schools.”
In re Tom Malinowski
Appellants claimed that state's ban on fusion voting violates rights to vote, to free speech and political association, to equal protection, and to assemble
Bailey v. McKintosh County, Webster v. McIntosh County, McIntosh County v. Webster
Georgia Supreme Court reversed a lower court order stopping a special election on a referendum to repeal a county zoning ordinance that could increase home sizes in a historic community of slave descendants, holding the state constitutional clause giving voters that referendum authority extends to zoning ordinances.
Englewood Hospital & Medical Center v. State
New Jersey Supreme Court rejected claims by a group of hospitals that the state’s “charity care program” — which prevents them from turning away people unable to pay and from billing qualified patients — constitutes an illegal "per se" or regulatory taking under the state and federal constitutions.
Phillips v. State (Formerly Blackmon v. State)
Plaintiffs, including patients who allege they did not receive medically necessary abortion care due to doctors' confusion regarding the scope of the medical necessity exception in the state's abortion ban, challenge that exception as violating state constitutional rights to life and equal protection and as unconstitutionally vague.
State v. Haynes
Connecticut Supreme Court declined to depart from precedent, based on federal case law, permitting prosecutors to impeach a defendant's trial testimony using statements obtained in violation of the defendant's Miranda rights.
Southern Methodist University v. South Central Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church
Concurrence to Texas Supreme Court decision finding a church conference has statutory authority to sue Southern Methodist University for breach of contract, in which four justices highlighted the need to consider the extent to which the state constitution protects the autonomy of religious organizations, independent of the First Amendment.
Wyoming Supreme Court Strikes Down Laws Banning Abortion
The court ruled that laws criminalizing abortion violated the state’s “health care freedom” amendment, passed in 2012 to limit the reach of the Affordable Care Act.
A Conversation with Chief Judge Jeffrey S Sutton Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Transcript of panel from Symposium: The Power of State Constitutional Rights
