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U.S. v. SHRIVER

No. 91-30098.

782 F.Supp. 408 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Stephen L. SHRIVER, Joseph R. Denman, Harry Lawrence Daly, and Joseph D. Fones, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Springfield Division.

February 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth L. Collins, Asst. U.S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., for plaintiff.

Howard W. Feldman, Springfield, Ill., Steven Skelton, Bloomington, Ill., Steven Nardulli, Bruce Locher, Springfield, Ill., for defendants.

OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:

What do a martini olive transmitter and a modified satellite television descrambler have in common?

Fortunately, for the Defendants: nothing.

The issue in this case is whether modified satellite television descramblers are primarily useful for the surreptitious interception of electronic communications.

This Court concludes that they are not.

Defendants move to dismiss the superseding...

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