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This database is updated monthly, although individual cases may be updated more frequently. Last updated comprehensively with cases decided through March 2025.
Featured Cases
Republican National Committee v. Eternal Vigilance Action, Inc; Georgia v. Eternal Vigilance Action
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled invalid under state nondelegation principles four of seven rules passed by the Georgia State Election board — requiring hand counting of ballots, requiring county election boards to make a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying results, permitting those board members to “examine all election-related documentation” prior to certifying, and requiring identification for people dropping off others' absentee ballots. A rule requiring video surveillance of drop boxes outside of voting hours was upheld. Because those five rules implicate the right to cast a ballot or have it counted, the court said the individual voter plaintiffs had standing to challenge them. The court did not decide the validity of the two remaining rules — that the total number of votes be reported and made public daily and that poll watchers have expanded access to vote tabulation areas — finding they did not implicate the voter plaintiffs' rights and remanding whether a county board member had standing to the trial court for further consideration. The voting rights group plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge any rule, the court said.
Planned Parenthood of Montana v. State (Planned Parenthood 1)
Montana Supreme Court held that a 20-week abortion ban; restrictions on medication abortions, including a telehealth ban and 24-hour waiting period; and requirement that providers give patients an opportunity to view an ultrasound and listen to a fetal heartbeat violate the express right to privacy in the state constitution. Reaffirming the court's precedent interpreting that right to protect personal and procreative autonomy, the court found the state had not demonstrated the restrictions address a medically-acknowledged, bona-fide health risk or are narrowly tailored to satisfy a compelling government interest. The Montana high court previously affirmed a preliminary injunction in the case.
Care and Prevention of Eve
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that department of children and families violated the state constitution's free exercise of religion protection when it vaccinated a child temporarily in its custody over the religious objections of her parents. Parents who have temporarily lost custody of their children retain a residual right to direct their religious upbringing. When parents object to vaccinating a child on religious grounds, the state must demonstrate that allowing the child to remain unvaccinated would substantially hinder the department’s compelling interest in the vaccination. The department failed to show substantial hindrance because state law allows religious exemptions from vaccination for parents who have not lost temporary custody and the agency has not consistently applied the vaccination requirement for children in its custody.
Salt Lake County v. Utah State Tax Commission
Held the county failed to prove that the application of the Aircraft Valuation Law to Delta Air Lines' aircraft resulted in an assessment below fair market value in violation of the Utah Constitution
State v. Slaughter
Held that defendant was entitled to credit against sentence for bribery for entire 263 days spent incarcerated following his arrest through sentencing
Mitchell v. Palmer
Held that the trial court should have considered relevant factors on defendant's motion to disqualify entire prosecutor's office with which victim was employed
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc, et al. v. Kim Reynolds, et al.
The Iowa Supreme Court held that abortion is not a fundamental right under the state constitution and is only subject to rational basis review. The court reversed a lower court injunction halting the state's "fetal heartbeat" law.
Forward Montana v. State
Held that litigation challenging statutory provisions relating to campaign activities and judicial recusal vindicated important constitutional interests and plaintiffs were therefore entitled to attorneys fees under the Private Attorney General Doctrine
Rainwaters v. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Rejected federal "open fields" exception to the federal Fourth Amendment in interpreting Article I, Section 7, of the Tennessee Constitution
State v. Carter
Concurrence would revisit prior jurisprudence holding that the Ohio constitution's confrontation clause must be interpreted in lockstep with that of the federal constitution
Cobb County v. Floam
Held that the claims of two citizens who sought a declaratory judgment that their local board of commissioners acted unconstitutionally when it changed the commission district boundaries lines must be dismissed because the plaintiffs did not show any uncertainty as to their future conduct that warranted declaratory relief.
Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re: Adult Personal Use of Marijuana
Held that the proposed ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana under Florida law met the constitution's single-subject requirement
Drummond v. Statewide Virtual Charter Schoolboard
Ruled that the state education board’s approval of a Catholic school's application to be a public charter school violated the Oklahoma Constitution, the federal Establishment Clause, and the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act
