Legal Opinion
Bertram Zweibon v. John N. Mitchell, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 12, 1979No. 78-1348PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Chief Judge:
Appellants, members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), sued former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and nine agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for damages for wiretapping of the JDL’s New York office in 1970 and 1971. The District Court dismissed the case because it refused to apply retroactively the constitutional requirement of a warrant for national security wiretaps that was articulated in United States v. United States District Court (Keith), 407 U.S. 297, 92 S.Ct. 2125, 32 L.Ed.2d 752 (1972), and in Zweibon v. Mitchell (Zweibon I), 170…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Hardison v. AlexanderCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- Morton H. Halperin v. Henry A. KissingerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1986
- Mitchell v. ZweibonSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Morton Halperin v. Henry Kissinger Morton Halperin v. Henry Kissinger, Richard M. Nixon, John N. Mitchell, and H. R. HaldemanCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
- Bertram Zweibon v. John N. Mitchell, Individually and as Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
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