State Case Database
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.
Featured Cases
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
T.D. v. Wrigley
North Dakota Supreme Court will consider challenge to the state's gender-affirming care ban under privileges and immunities and inalienable rights clauses; a lower court rejected the claims
Malcom v. Gray
Wyoming Supreme Court will consider whether statutory changes preventing voters from declaring or changing their party affiliation within 96 days of the primary violate "open, free and equal" election and political right clauses
Family Violence Appellate Project v. Superior Court of Contra Costa County
California Supreme Court will consider whether a law prohibiting electronic recording of many civil proceedings is unconstitutional as applied to circumstances where no court reporter is available to transcribe the proceeding and a litigant cannot afford a private reporter
In re Personal Restraint of Amber Kim
Washington Supreme Court will consider whether the state's transfer of a transgender woman from a women's to a men's prison violated prohibition on cruel punishment
City of Columbus v. State
Ohio Supreme Court will consider whether a statute prohibiting cities from regulating tobacco products violates the state's home rule amendment
IntegrateNYC, Inc. v. State
New York Court of Appeals dismissed the plaintiffs' state constitutional claim that the NYC public education system discriminates against Black and Latino students, finding the allegations vague and conclusory
Ball v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester
New Hampshire Supreme Court held that retroactive application of a law eliminating the statute of limitations for personal actions based on sexual assault would violate Part I, Article 23 of the New Hampshire Constitution
In re Schoenhals
Washington Supreme Court held that Washington's constitutional prohibition on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for 18-to-20-year-old offenders is a substantive constitutional rule that applies retroactively on collateral review
Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State
Hawaii Supreme Court held that Hawaii's Takings Clause does not waive sovereign immunity for awards of attorneys' fees in inverse condemnation cases against the State
State v. Spies
Hawaii Supreme Court held that officers engaging in consensual interrogation after a traffic stop must clearly inform the person that they are free to go prior to commencing the interrogation, absent independent reasonable suspicion justifying continued detention
