Legal Opinion
Vivian Bess v. Leonard L. Bess
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 20, 1991No. 90-2185PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
In October 1983, Vivian Bess discovered that her estranged husband, Leonard, had placed a recording apparatus on her telephone to tape her conversations. She sued him for violating Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Pub.L. No. 90-351, 82 Stat. 197 (1968) (current version at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520 (1988)) [hereinafter Title III], which provides a civil cause of action for the unauthorized interception, disclosure or use of wire communications. After a bench trial, the federal magistrate judge ruled in Vivian’s favor and awarded her…
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