| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| Laird v. Tatum |
1972 |
freedom of speech rights cannot be chilled by the mere existence of government surveillance and data gathering |
| Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner |
1972 |
First Amendment; private property; rights |
| Barker v. Wingo |
1972 |
Sixth Amendment and speedy trial |
| United States v. U.S. District Court |
1972 |
Fourth Amendment, Search and seizure, Search warrant, Wiretapping |
| Flood v. Kuhn |
1972 |
baseball and antitrust regulation |
| Pennsylvania v. New York |
1972 |
state of escheat for unclaimed money orders |
| Fuentes v. Shevin |
1972 |
Opportunity to be heard |
| The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company |
1972 |
enforceability of a forum selection clause |
| Aikens v. California |
1972 |
mootness in a death penalty case |
| Jackson v. Indiana |
1972 |
indefinite detention of a defendant incompetent to stand trial violates due process and equal protection |
| Apodaca v. Oregon |
1972 |
state juries may convict a defendant by less than unanimity |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder |
1972 |
freedom of religion, high school education |
| Sierra Club v. Morton |
1972 |
standing in cases in which plaintiffs assert interest in aesthetic or recreational interest in property (in this case, Mineral King area) |
| Eisenstadt v. Baird |
1972 |
privacy, birth control |
| Commissioner v. First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. |
1972 |
tax reporting for banks prohibited from doing insurance business |
| Cruz v. Beto |
1972 |
free exercise of religion while in prison custody |
| Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California |
1972 |
states cannot sue for general economic damage due to violation of antitrust laws |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp Co. |
1972 |
FTC may act against a company’s “unfair” business practices even though the practice is not an antitrust violation |
| Papachristou v. Jacksonville |
1972 |
vagrancy ordinance held void for vagueness |
| Parisi v. Davidson |
1972 |
conscientious objector status |