Supreme Court· 12/20/1937

Nardone v. United States

Citations

302 U.S. 379
58 S. Ct. 275
82 L. Ed. 314
1937 U.S. LEXIS 1152

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holding that where telephone message was intercepted in violation of Federal Communications Act the \plain words\ of the statute prohibited \recit[ation] [of] the contents of the message in testimony before a court\
suppressing evidence seized in violation of the wiretap law, though not discussing source of Court's power to do so.
suppressing evidence seized in violation of the wiretap law, though not discussing source of Court’s power to do so.
rejecting Government’s invocation of presumption where it would have made statute prohibiting wire-tapping presumptively inapplicable to Government
a statute does not apply to or affect the government or its rights unless the text expressly states that its provisions apply to the government
Federal officers were “persons” within the meaning of the Communications Act of 1934 and, therefore, required to adhere to restrictions on use of wiretaps

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Judges: Roberts, Sutherland, McReynolds

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