Case Reaches Supreme Court, 1928

whether the use of evidence of private telephone conversations, between the defendants and others, intercepted by means of wiretapping, is a violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments . . .
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, former President of the United States, wrote the opinion for this landmark case.

Case Reaches Supreme Court 1928

With this order, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Roy Olmstead. In a close decision, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the Government’s use of wiretapping in law enforcement.

National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States