United States v. New York Telephone Co.

Mr. Justice Stevens, with whom Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall join,

dissenting in part.

Today’s decision appears to present no radical departure from this Court’s prior holdings. It builds upon previous intimations that a federal district court’s power to issue a search warrant under Fed. Rule Crim. Proc. 41 is a flexible one, not strictly restrained by statutory authorization, and it applies the same flexible analysis to the All Writs Act, 28 U. S. C. § 1651 (a). But for one who thinks of federal courts as courts of limited jurisdiction, the Court’s decision is difficult *179to…