Rufus Lee Smith v. The Cincinnati Post & Times-Star

This is an appeal from a summary judgment, D.C., 353 F.Supp. 1126, entered against the plaintiff-appellant in his suit brought under 18 U.S.C. § 2520, which authorizes a civil action by any person whose wire or oral communication is intercepted, disclosed or used in violation of the Federal Wiretap Laws. The appellant was a party to a telephone conversation with one Howard Wunker in which the appellant allegedly indicated that he could arrange a “fix” in a divorce case then pending in the Domestic Relations Court for Hamilton County, Ohio, where the appellant was then employed. Wunker caused…