Smith v. Wunker

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the common understanding of “aural acquisition\ means \to come into possession through the sense of hearing”
• examining section 2511(2)(d) exception and noting that “the concern of Congress was with the interception of private conversations by an unseen auditor.”
• recording of private phone conversation and subsequent disclosure thereof did not violate federal wiretapping statute
• noting, in discussion of section 2511(2)(d) exception, that “the concern of Congress was with the interception of private conversations by an unseen auditor”
• “the means of ‘oral acquisition’ in this case is the telephone itself, and, of course, that is clearly exempted by 18 U.S.C. § 2510(5)(a)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).