United States Ninth Circuit

In the context of 18 U.S.C. section 2518(3), which authorizes a judge, upon proper showing, to authorize -interception of . . . electronic communications within the territorial jurisdiction of the court in which the judge is sitting,- an interception occurs where the tapped phone is located and where law enforcement officers first overhear the call.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/15/2006
• Decided 12/26/2006
• Published 12/26/2006

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge., Before CANBY, THOMPSON, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Osterhoudt, San Francisco, CA;  Dennis P. Riordan, Riordan & Horgan, San Francisco, CA;  Gary K. Dubcoff, San Francisco, CA;  and George C. Boisseau, Santa Rosa, CA;  for the defendants-appellants., Nina Goodman, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee.