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 held, in a divided decision, that the governor did not exceed his partial veto authority under the state constitution when he altered digits, words, and punctuation in a budget bill to extend a school funding increase from 2 to 402 years.
Griffin v. State Board of Elections
A candidate for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, who lost by over 700 votes, claims that the state board of elections followed an incorrect process for registering voters and seeks in invalidate more than 60,000 votes.
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.
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers v. State of Missouri
Asking the court to declare unconstitutional and block enforcement of Missouri’s ban on abortion, its ban on the use of telemedicine for abortion, the 72-hour waiting period for the procedure, and multiple other restrictive abortion-related laws.
MacDonald v. Simon
Held that a lawyer with suspended license was not “learned in the law” as required by the Minnesota constitution, and thus was not eligible to run for election as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Elliott v. City of College Station
State supreme court will determine if courts can resolve whether the state constitution’s clause preserving a “republican form of government” protects citizens from being subject to city regulations when they cannot vote in city elections.
Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
Appellate court upheld a temporary injunction against Indiana's 2022 abortion ban based on religious freedom claims, but held the injunction was overly broad because it enjoined enforcement of the abortion law in ways that did not violate the state's religious freedom act. Remanded for entry of a narrower injunction. Indiana Supreme Court did not take up an appeal of the appellate court ruling, leaving it in place.
Ex parte Jackson Hospital & Clinic
Ruled that the Governor's emergency proclamation limiting healthcare providers' liability for negligence as to COVID-19 was neither unconstitutional under the separation-of-powers clause nor the provision that only the Legislature could suspend laws, nor did it violate the constitutional prohibition on curtailing a right to a remedy
Walker v. Chasteen
Held that the refund claim of unconstitutionally added-on filing fees for mortgage foreclosure complaints was a retrospective monetary award to redress a past wrong, which fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, not the circuit court
Kansas v. Harper
Trial court upheld requirement that driver’s licenses be issued only with driver’s sex as assigned at birth because it applied equally to every single person applying for a driver’s license, rejecting equal protection claim that the rule discriminates against transgender people
State v. Warren
Held that the right to confrontation enshrined in the New Hampshire constitution would be violated by permitting a child victim to testify from outside the courtroom via a one-way video feed
Sync Title Agency, LLC v. Arizona Corporation Commission
Arizona Court of Appeals will consider whether a juryless administrative hearing for civil fraud charges violates the state constitutional jury trial right. Amicus groups dispute whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in SEC v. Jarkesy — that when the securities and exchange commission seeks civil penalties for federal securities fraud, defendants have a 7th Amendment jury right that entitles them to more than an administrative hearing — should be instructive for purposes of Arizona's jury right.
Jackson v. Florida
Will consider facial and as-applied challenges under the federal Sixth, Eighth, and 14th Amendments, as well as under Florida's "cruel and unusual" punishment and equal protection analogues in arguments raised by amicus groups, to a 2023 law that permits defendants to be sentenced to death with only the votes of 8 of 12 jurors.
