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BRIGGS v. AMERICAN AIR FILTER CO., INC.

No. 78-2739.

630 F.2d 414 (1980)

Philip BRIGGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIR FILTER CO., INC., and William F. McClure, Jr., Defendants-Appellees. Dan C. ROBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIR FILTER CO., INC., and William F. McClure, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 14, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Weissman, Robert C. Dillon, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Greene Buckley, DeRieux & Jones, Burt DeRieux, Eileen Crowley, Atlanta, Ga., for American Air Filter Co., Inc. and for William F. McClure, Jr.

Before GOLDBERG, CHARLES CLARK and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

We must today interpret the "extension telephone exception" to the prohibition against wiretapping and electronic surveillance contained in Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520 ("Title III"). In particular, we must decide whether defendant-appellee William F. McClure, Jr., used a telephone "in the ordinary course of ... business" when he used it to listen to a conversation between...

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