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Close the E-Mail Wiretap Loophole
Mark Rasch, 2004-07-05

Some pretty sleazy operators are slipping through a hole in a federal wiretap law that arguably leaves your e-mail unprotected from snooping.

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Statutory Interpretation 2004-07-08
Mark D. Rasch
As a general rule, courts only look back at the PURPOSE of a law when it finds that the LANGUAGE of the law is ambiguous. If it cannot determine what a law SAYS, then it tries to figure out what it MEANS (context), and if it cant figure that out, then it goes to what it was intended to DO (purpose and legislative history.) Here the court found that the language of the statute was not ambioguous, so there was no need to resort to legislative history.

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