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Without Warrant. The case in point concerned a small-time Los Angeles gambler, Charles Katz, whose calls from a public phone booth had been bugged by the FBI without a warrant and with a device that had been taped to the top of the booth to avoid the trespass disability. Stewart conceded for the sake of argument that the FBI agents did not bug until they had good reason to believe that Katz was using the phone to violate federal law; then they were careful to listen only to Katz and to stop as soon as they had collected what...
...need for such investigation, specifically informed of the basis on which it was to proceed and clearly apprised of the precise intrusion it would entail, could constitutionally have authorized the very limited search and seizure that the Government asserts took place." The problem-and the reason that Katz's conviction was reversed-was that no warrant was obtained...
...decision almost certainly reopened the way to carefully controlled eavesdropping. What will now become known as the Katz rule holds that eavesdropping is constitutionally acceptable if the eavesdropper obtains a warrant by showing probable cause to a proper judicial authority. Then, during the bugging, he must observe the precise limits outlined by the court when the warrant was obtained, and finally, he must report back to the court on just what was overheard as a result of the surveillance. But the court did not say anything that would keep him from using any of the dozens of new, sophisticated devices...
...Neal P. Katz, one of four losing candidates in the final election and a member of Students for a Democratic Society, said he attributed his defeat to "clubbie backlash." Katz was one of an original field of twenty...
...members of the Yale-Vassar Group also voiced their disappointment yesterday. Eve Katz, assistant professor of French at Yale, and executive secretary of the group, said yesterday, "It is comforting to know that this does not mean the end of an undergraduate women's college at Yale, but it is a regrettable way to start...