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
Ohio v. Isaiah Morris
Court will review court of appeals's decision finding that the state constitutional right to counsel is more protective than the 6th Amendment and requires a defendant, who has been formally charged and secured an attorney, to consult with counsel before any waiver of his right to have an attorney present during a police interrogation can be valid.
Spillane v. Lamont
Held that a statute prospectively eliminating a religious exemption to a vaccination requirement as a condition of public and private school enrollment did not infringe on state constitutional right to a free public school education
R.W. v. Dept. of Education and T.G.A. v. Dept. of Education
Will consider whether a law that requires the state to publicize suspensions of teachers who are charged with serious crimes, requires removal of references to those suspensions -- or whether due process principles in the Pennsylvania Constitution do -- if those charges are subsequently resolved in the educators' favor.
Layla H v. Virginia
Plaintiffs claim that state’s practice of approving permits for fossil-fuel infrastructure violates substantive due process and public trust rights to natural resources, protected by the state constitution. They claim such practice infringes these rights by contributing to greenhouse-gas pollution and climate change. A trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ complaint, and the intermediate appellate court affirmed on the basis that the plaintiffs lack standing. Finding that there was no reversible error, the Virginia Supreme Court declined to grant review of the appellate court decision.
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles v. Simmons
Reversed trial court injunction that had ordered Indiana's bureau of motor vehicles to allow a non-binary gender marker on drivers' licenses, finding that the agency's binary-only policy triggers rational-basis review under the federal equal protection clause and does not infringe federal substantive due process.
SisterSong v. Georgia
Georgia Supreme Court vacated the trial court’s decision and remanded to the trial court to reconsider whether the plaintiffs — medical providers and reproductive rights groups — have standing in light of the state high court’s holding in a separate case that a party who asserts only the rights of a third party lacks standing to sue
Jacobs v. City of Columbia Heights
Held that a recall petition failed to allege the necessary grounds for a recall election under the Minnesota Constitution
Pima County. v. State
Held that taxes levied to pay for desegregation expenses, which are subject to the Arizona Constitution's one percent limit on residential property taxes, are not "primary property taxes"
Doe v. Minnesota
Left in place a lower court order blocking abortion restrictions relating to mandated physician care, hospitalization, criminalization, parental notification, and informed consent for violating the state constitution
Sellers v. People
The Colorado Supreme Court rejected claims that the life-without-parole sentence of a man convicted of felony murder violated the federal Eighth Amendment or Colorado's constitutional cognate
