To find this dissenting opinion go to the case herelinks to an external site.

This time you are looking for the famous Dissenting Opinion by the great Justice Louis Brandeis in the infamous wiretapping Supreme Court case Olmstead v US (1928).
To find this dissenting opinion go to the case hereLinks to an external site. on the Cornell Law School site. Cases this old are also available online through the Oyez Project (run by Northwestern University), FindLaw, or the Supreme Court’s own database.
Your assignment is to,
1) scroll down to and read the Brandeis dissent from the Olmstead case, and
2) write an analytical essay concerning the overall message Brandeis is giving us in this dissent.
3) In your essay you should go beyond the facts of the case to get to the larger lessons Brandeis is offering concerning the Constitution and Civil Liberties in general.
Use quotes when citing passages from this Dissent. The length of your essay (not including the quoted material) should be at least 3 solid paragraphs of your own writing, for a maximum value of 10 points.


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