Pugach v. Dollinger

In its latest pronouncement upon the issue, the Supreme Court of the United States has refused to find exception for state officers from the sweeping federal ban on unauthorized interception and divulgenee of “any communication,” contained in § 605 of the Federal Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. § 605. Speaking through the Chief Justice of the United States, a unanimous Court finds “that Congress, setting out a prohibition in plain terms, did not mean to allow state legislation which would contradict that section and that policy.” And it points out the failure of Congess to grant exceptions,…