Peavy v. New Times, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUCHMEYER, Chief Judge.

This case presents a question of first impression concerning the constitutionality of the federal wiretap statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Title III), as applied to the following facts: an unknown person illegally wiretapped private telephone conversations in which the plaintiff, a public school board trustee, made numerous racial slurs and profane comments, such as:.. .And anybody that would go out there to these schools and take these mother fucking ignorant god-damn little niggers and everything else and all these chickenshit parents for forty five…