The Fourth Amendment And Electronic Eavesdropping: A Survey Of Constitutional Change

The United States Supreme Court has been struggling for four decades with the problem of applying the "search and seizure" provision of the Fourth Amendment as a protection against invasions of privacy in the form of electronic eavesdropping. The court has rendered many opinions in this unclear area that leave many students of the Fourth Amendment wondering about the true application of the Amendment to electronic eavesdropping. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt to clarify the Court's pronouncements in this unclear area.