Abstract
This brief Article discusses the 2001 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bartnicki v. Vopper, which upheld the media’s right to broadcast a taped, intercepted telephone conversation regarding negotiations between a local teachers’ union and the school district. Key to the Court’s holding was its finding that the media had not obtained the tape illegally and that the conversation related to matters of public concern. In this case, the First Amendment rights of the media outweighed the privacy rights of the parties to the conversation.
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