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Search State Court Report's database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases. Download decisions and briefs for cases that develop state constitutional law. This is a selected database and does not include every state supreme court case. See methodology and "How to Use the State Case Database" for more information.
This database is updated monthly, although individual cases may be updated more frequently. Last updated comprehensively with cases decided through October 2025.
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Equal Ground Education Fund v. Byrd; Vaccari v. Byrd; Common Cause v. DeSantis
Florida Supreme Court denied petition seeking to halt use of the state's new congressional map while consolidated challenges to the map under the state's Fair Districts Amendment proceed. An appellate court is reviewing a trial court's denial of a temporary injunction
NAACP v. Tennessee
Tennessee lower court dismissed challenge to the state's mid-decade congressional redistricting, which claimed the legislature did not have authority to alter state laws to allow the redistrictring because those alterations were not specifically included in the governor's proclamation calling the session
McDougle v. Scott
Virginia Supreme Court, in a split decision, nullified a constitutional amendment approved by voters that would have allowed the state's congressional districts to be redrawn, finding the legislative process used for the amendment violated the state constitution
Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Planned Parenthood Great Northwest
Indiana Supreme Court held that the right to privacy does not protect the right to abortion except when necessary to protect the patient’s life or to protect a patient from a serious health risk. The court left open the possibility of an as-applied challenge to the state's ban, but the plaintiffs' attempt at such a challenge was rejected on remand
Sobel v. Coleman (formerly Cameron)
Jewish women claim abortion ban, which defines human life as beginning at fertilization, violates prohibition on unintelligible laws because its application to in vitro fertilization is unclear, and religious liberties by inhibiting the Jewish duty to procreate and prioritizing Christian values
Allegheny Reproductive Health v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated lawsuit challenging constitutionality of ban on Medicaid-funded abortion and held that the ban must survive heightened scrutiny; on remand, lower court found the ban violates the state's equal rights amendment and equal protection guarantee
Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
Indiana Supreme Court will consider a lower court's permanent injunction against the state's abortion ban as to a class of religious plaintiffs; the high court previously declined to review an intermediate court's affirmance that the religious and spiritual plaintiffs
were entitled to a temporary injunction
Fitz-James v. Hoskins
Missouri appellate court rewrote ballot language for a proposed 2026 measure that would repeal the state's 2024 reproductive rights amendment, as well as affirmed that the measure did not violate the single-subject rule
Isaacson v. Arizona
Arizona trial court struck down several restrictions on pre-viability abortion for violating 2024 amendment enshrining abortion rights
Idahoans United for Women & Families v. Labrador
The Idaho Supreme Court held that the Fiscal Imopact Statement and short ballot title for an abortion-related ballot initiative violated sections of the Idaho Constitution
Texas v. Bruck
New York trial court dismissed Texas's petition seeking to order county clerk to accept its filing intended to begin the process of enforcing that state's default judgment against a New York doctor, who allegedly sent abortion pills to a Texas woman
State ex rel. Fitz-James v. Bailey
Missouri Supreme Court ordered the attorney general to approve the fiscal note summaries he had refused to approve for 11 proposed initiatives, including a reproductive rights measure
Preterm-Cleveland v. Yost
Plaintiffs claimed that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the fundamental right of individual liberty, as well as equal protection and due process guarantees
