Heyman v. Heyman

Memorandum

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

This suit was filed after the plaintiff discovered that defendant, from whom she was estranged but living separately from him in the same apartment, had attached a wire and jack to her bedroom telephone and wiretapped her private conversations with others. In her three-count complaint, she alleges that this conduct is actionable under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2511, 2520; that it violated an Illinois criminal statute, Ill.Rev.Stat.1979, ch. 38, § 14—2, which prohibits electronic eavesdropping; and that as a…