Nardone v. United States

Nardone v. United States, 308 U.S. 338 (1939), was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that evidence obtained via warrantless wiretaps, in violation of the Communications Act of 1934, was inadmissible in federal court.^[1] The Court ruled that use of evidence directly obtained from wiretapping, such as the conversations themselves, and indirectly, such as evidence obtained through knowledge gained from wiretapped conversations, was inadmissible in trial court.^[1]

Nardone v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 14, 1939 Decided December 11, 1939
Full case name	Nardone v. United States
Citations	308 U.S. 338 (more)
Holding
Evidence procured by wiretapping in violation of the Communications Act of 1934 is inadmissible
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas
Case opinions
Majority	Frankfurter, joined by Hughes, Butler, Stone, Black, Roberts, Douglas
Dissent	McReynolds
Reed took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Communications Act of 1934