Legal Opinion
Spock v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 18, 1978No. 76 Civ. 4457 (VLB)PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
Plaintiff seeks redress against the United States, the Director of the National Security Agency (“NSA”), and several unknown agents of NSA for the alleged interception of plaintiff’s oral, wire, telephone and telegraph communications in violation of plaintiff’s constitutional, statutory and common law rights. Plaintiff grounds his cause of action on the First and Fourth Amendments, 18 U.S.C. § 2510-2520, 47 U.S.C. § 605, and state law. He seeks 1) a declaratory judgment that the alleged interceptions were unlawful; 2) a permanent…
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