| Case name |
Citation |
Summary |
| McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green |
1973 |
standard of proof in employment discrimination cases |
| Gagnon v. Scarpelli |
1973 |
probation hearings and due process |
| Frontiero v. Richardson |
1973 |
equal protection, gender discrimination in military dependency regulation |
| United States v. Russell |
1973 |
Active government agent involvement in criminal conspiracy does not constitute entrapment; Rehnquist inadvertently creates possible "outrageous government conduct" standard. |
| McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm'n |
1973 |
Indian taxation by states |
| Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones |
1973 |
Indian taxation by states |
| San Antonio Independent School Dist. v. Rodriguez |
1973 |
equal protection, education |
| United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. |
1973 |
due process right to a hearing when administrative rules are to be changed |
| Doe v. Bolton |
1973 |
restrictions on abortion |
| Roe v. Wade |
1973 |
abortion, due process, privacy |
| United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd. |
1973 |
when a patent is directly involved in an antitrust violation, the Government may challenge the validity of the patent |
| Bronston v. United States |
1973 |
Literally truthful statements under oath cannot be prosecuted as perjury even if intent was to mislead questioner |
| Gottschalk v. Benson |
1972 |
Computer algorithms not considered patentable subject matter |
| Kleindienst v. Mandel |
1972 |
U.S. Attorney General's power to deny persons entry to the United States |
| Branzburg v. Hayes |
1972 |
First Amendment; grand jury, journalists’ rights |
| Gravel v. United States |
1972 |
protection offered by the Speech or Debate Clause to non-legislative activity |
| Perry v. Sindermann |
1972 |
First Amendment; de facto professor tenure |
| Board of Regents v. Roth |
1972 |
procedural due process in firing non-tenured professor |
| Furman v. Georgia |
1972 |
death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment; overruled by Gregg v. Georgia |
| Kois v. Wisconsin |
1972 |
nude photographs accompanying and rationally related to a newspaper story are entitled to Constitutional free press protection |