authorized by the sender
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 308 U.S. 321 - Weiss v. United States · 1939Most cited · 431 citing opinions
The Act contemplates voluntary consent and not enforced agreement to publication. The participants were ignorant of the interception of the messages and did not consent thereto.
How often courts cite the case defining “authorized by the sender”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “authorized by the sender” — 431 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.