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 February 2025.
Featured Cases
LeMieux v. Evers
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will address the scope of Gov. Tony Evers’s state constitutional authority to approve spending bills passed by the legislature only “in part,” by line-item vetoing other parts.
People v. Taylor; People v. Czarnecki
Michigan Supreme Court held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences violate the state constitution’s protection against “cruel or unusual” punishment for anyone under age 21 at the time of the offense. The decision extends the court’s 2022 ruling in People v. Parks that such sentences are unconstitutional for those 18 or under.
N'Da v. Hybl
Nebraska Supreme Court held that statutory requirement that applicant seeking certificate to provide nonemergency medical transport must show the proposed service is required by "public convenience and necessity" does not facially violate state constitutional due process or bans on "special laws" or laws granting "special privileges and immunities." Also held that that the Nebraska Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses are coextensive with their federal equivalents, so federal rational basis review applies to substantive due process challenges to economic regulations, not the heightened standard the court had applied in a line of cases from the early 20th century.
Rodriguez v. Massachusetts Parole Board
Ruled the right to a meaningful opportunity for parole applies to all juveniles sentenced to life without parole and affords judicial review of only one parole denial
McDonald v. Jacobsen
Ruled that a legislative referendum requiring that supreme court justices be elected by district, rather than statewide, violates the state constitution
Nath v. Texas Children's Hospital
Dissent would have granted petition for review to determine whether party had a fundamental constitutional right to a jury trial on the issue of an attorney-fee-shifting sanction
Planned Parenthood of Montana v. State (Planned Parenthood 1)
Ruled that providers made a prima facie case that the State’s ban on abortions within twenty weeks is incompatible with the state constitution
Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico v. New Mexico State Game Commission
Ruled regulations closing access to public water unconstitutionally limits public’s right to recreate and fish in public waters
Fann v. Kemp
Held that legislative privilege protects senate communications regarding audit of 2020 election from disclosure, as audit was a legislative, not administrative or political, matter
NECEC Transmission LLC v. Bureau of Parks & Lands
Ruled legislation retroactively applied to construction project violates due process if developer had acquired constitutionally protected vested rights to proceed with project
State v. Collins
Ruled second degree harassment statute is not unconstitutionally overbroad so long as it applies to a limited core of unprotected conduct and communication
Lyons v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
Ruled legislature’s power to expand early voting options was not limited by constitution’s absentee ballot provision, rejected free speech and secret ballot claims
McLinko v. Commonwealth
Ruled that the assembly did not violate the state constitution when it enacted legislation allowing for universal mail-in voting
