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First Circuit· 9/3/1997

Gilday v. Dubois

Citations

  • 124 F.3d 277
  • 1997 WL 527665

How courts have described this case

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  • guoting Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation and Dev. Comm'n, 461 U.S. 190, 201 (1983)
  • analogizing “call detailing,” which identifies the caller, the number called, and the date, time, and length of the call, to routing and signaling information associated with pen registers, and finding it outside the ambit of the ECPA
  • interpreting the Massachusetts Wiretap Act, which tracts the Federal Wiretap Act
  • “As a prison inmate, [the prisoner] can identify no federal or state right—constitutional or otherwise—to utilize a prison phone on his own terms.”
  • “Thus, upon dialing 1’ the party reached at the number dialed by the inmate consents to the [call and recording] prior to any communication with the inmate.”

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Judges: Cyr, Stearns, Gertner

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