Olmstead V. United States - United States Supreme Court

Olmstead V. United States

By United States Supreme Court

  • Release Date: 1928-06-04
  • Genre: Law

Description

These cases are here by certiorari from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 19 F.(2d) 842, 53 A. L. R. 1472, and 19 F.(2d) 850. The petition in No. 493 Was filed August 30, 1927; in Nos. 532 and 533, September 9, 1927. They were granted with the distinct limitation that the hearing should be confined to the single question whether the use of evidence of private telephone conversations between the defendants and others, intercepted by means of wire tapping, amounted to a violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. 276 U.S. 609 , 48 S. Ct. 207, 72 L. Ed. -.