OLMSTEAD v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 493, 532 and 533.

277 U.S. 438 (1928)

OLMSTEAD ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. GREEN ET AL. v. SAME. McINNIS v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 4, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dore, with whom Messrs. F.C. Reagan and J.L. Finch were on the brief, for petitioners in No. 493.

Mr. Frank R. Jeffery, for petitioner in No. 533, and some of the petitioners in No. 532.

Messrs. Arthur E. Griffin, George F. Vanderveer, and Samuel B. Bassett, on a brief for petitioners in No. 532.

Mr. Michael J. Doherty, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell was on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Otto B. Rupp, Charles M. Bracelen, Robert H. Strahan, and Clarence B. Randall on behalf of The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, United States Independent Telephone Association, and the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company, as amici curiae, filed a brief by special leave of Court.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases are here by certiorari from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 19 F.2d 842 and 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...

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