Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165 (1969)

Supreme Court decision of March 10, 1969 on government electronic surveillance, granting rehearing in the Denver threats case after the petitioners learned that Felix Alderisio's Chicago place of business had been monitored.

Date: 1969-03-10
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
Docket: 394 U.S. 165 (1969)
Rights: Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.

Supreme Court of the United States, decided March 10, 1969, together with Ivanov v. United States and Butenko v. United States.

The opinion states that the petitioners had been convicted of conspiring to transmit murderous threats in interstate commerce, that the Tenth Circuit affirmed (371 F.2d 983), and that certiorari was first denied. “In their petition for rehearing, petitioners alleged they had recently discovered that Alderisio’s place of business in Chicago had been the subject of electronic surveillance by the Government.”

The Court withdrew its earlier order, granted rehearing and certiorari as to Alderisio and Alderman, and vacated and remanded the judgments for proceedings on the surveillance records. The decision is cited for its rules on standing and disclosure of unlawfully overheard conversations; this page records only what it says about this case.

itemKolod v. United States, 371 F.2d 983 (10th Cir. 1967)Tenth Circuit opinion of February 3, 1967 affirming the convictions of Ruby Kolod, Willie Israel Alderman, and Felix Alderisio for conspiring to transmit threats in interstate commerce.itemUnited States v. Alderisio, 424 F.2d 20 (10th Cir. 1970)Tenth Circuit opinion of March 31, 1970 on remand from Alderman v. United States, otherwise affirming Felix Antonio Alderisio's 1965 Denver conviction.