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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
Thigpen v. Best Home Care
Minnesota Supreme Court held that penalty for unemployment benefit misrepresentation did not violate excessive fines clause and declined to decide whether ability to pay should be part of the proportionality analysis
In the Matter of Request for Opinion of the Justices
Maine Supreme Court issued an advisory opinion that proposed legislation extending ranked-choice voting to the general elections for governor and the state legislature would, if enacted, violate clauses requiring those positions to be elected by a plurality of all votes
Wise v. State; Healey v. State
Missouri Supreme Court upheld the state's new congressional map, finding it did not violate provision that "districts shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact and as nearly equal in population as may be"
People v. Ormsbee
Michigan Supreme Court will consider whether a law permitting trial courts to assess fees on convicted defendants to fund court operations violates due process by creating potential for bias, separation of powers, or a clause requiring a distinct statement for any tax
J.P. Morgan Chase v. City of Corsicana
Texas Supreme Court held that economic development grants or loans authorized by a 1987 amendment are subject to the state's "gift clauses," which restrict grants of public money to private entities
Mills v. Arizona State Board of Technical Registration
Electrical engineer Greg Mills challenges Arizona's licensing requirement for certain engineers as violating his right to earn a living under the state’s due process clause and running afoul of the privileges or immunities clause (the state’s equivalent of equal protection), among other claims
Coronell v. Georgia
Detainees challenge a state law increasing the number of offenses that require upfront bail payment for pretrial release under the state due process clause
Fitzmaurice v. City of Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider whether a city's plan to install statues of religious figures on a public building violates a provision that no subordination of any religion to another shall be established by law
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
Gamble v. State
Arizona Supreme Court held that it does not violate the state's search and seizure clause for police to arrest someone for a lesser crime when there is probable cause for that arrest, even if the arrest is pretext for investigating a more serious crime
