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· 5/4/1999

Charles Amati v. City of Woodstock

Citations

  • 176 F.3d 952
  • 43 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 351
  • 15 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 8448
  • 1999 WL 269044

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding law-enforcement exception to federal wiretap statute applied to plaintiff employee’s calls from police department because police department routinely recorded all calls placed on one of its phone lines—including calls by employees
  • refusing to interpret the \ordinary course of business\ exception to the federal wiretap statute to cover investigative recordings of telephone conversations from police stations
  • considering whether recordings on a specific police department private line fell within the equivalent federal law enforcement exception
  • recognizing the argument without attempting to resolve it
  • law enforcement exception applies to detention center's recording of calls to and from police station which captured employees' personal calls
  • law enforcement exception applies to detention center’s recording of calls to and from police station which captured employees’ personal calls

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Judges: Posner, Cudahy, Rovner

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