Legal Opinion
Providence Journal Company v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Raymond L. S. Patriarca, Defendant-In-Intervention-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 27, 1979No. 79-1056, 79-1067PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
Between March of 1962 and July of 1965 defendant-appellant, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), conducted electronic surveillance of Raymond Patriarca’s business office. The surveillance violated the Fourth Amendment. FBI agents recorded conversations, and compiled logs and memoranda from the tapes before erasing them. The resulting 2000 documents, consisting of over 7000 pages of summaries of the conversations, are the subject of this litigation.
In November, 1976, plaintiff-appellee, the Providence Journal Co., wrote to the Attorney General asking for release of…
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