Jacquelyn M. Chagnon v. Griffin Bell

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:

The question presented by this appeal is whether the District Court correctly ruled that the Attorney General of the United States, and those acting under him and at his direction, were entitled to a summary judgment on grounds of official immunity. Appellants filed suit in District Court on April 11, 1978, seeking money damages and equitable relief, after learning that appellees had overheard their conversations while conducting a warrantless wiretap on the telephone at the residence of a suspected foreign agent (Truong).

Appellants assert that, since the warrant-less…