Legal Opinion
Charles Amati v. City of Woodstock
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 1999No. 98-2680, 98-2681PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a suit under the federal electronic-eavesdropping statute (Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510 et seq.) against the former police chief of Woodstock, Illinois, and other former members of the Woodstock police department, complaining about the taping of calls on one of the department’s telephone lines, (815) 338-7799, between February and October of 1992. (The Title III charge against the City of Woodstock itself was dismissed before trial.) The appeal presents questions, both substantive and procedural, of some…
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