Legal Opinion
Bohach v. City of Reno
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided July 23, 1996No. CV-N-96-403-ECRPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
Mr. Bohach and Mr. Catalano are officers of the Reno Police Department. In early 1996, they sent messages to one another, and to another member of the Department, over the Department’s “Alphapage” message system. Faced with an internal affairs investigation based on the contents of those messages, they filed this lawsuit, claiming that both the storage of the messages by the Department’s computer network, and their subsequent retrieval from the computer’s files, were violations of the federal wiretapping statutes and of their constitutional right to…
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