Supreme Court of the United States, 1957

Rathbun v. United States

Rathbun v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 14, 1957
352 U.S. 965; 77 S. Ct. 354; 1 L. Ed. 2d 320; 1957 U.S. LEXIS 1489 (United States Reports)

Rathbun v. United States

Opinion of the Court

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted, limited to question 1 presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows:

“1. Is the listening in of third parties on an extension telephone in an adjoining room, without consent of the sender, an interception of a telephone message, and the divulgence of the contents of such conversation prohibited by statute, to wit Sec. 605, Title 47, U. S. C. A.”

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