Having business before the Supreme Court will want to draw near and give their attention. Announcer landmark cases, cspans special history series. Exploring the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, in our famous decisions, the Supreme Court was unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the believe in the rule of law. Tonights case is katz v. United states. It is a 1967 case. Charles katz was an unlikely hero. He took his wiretapping case to the Supreme Court and in a seven to one decision expanded our privacy rights. We will begin by listening to Justice Samuel alito in his constitution hearings where he talked about the importance of the kats case. I was talking about cats versus the United States this morning in relation to wiretapping. You had to look into property law in the interest of an invasion, and then with the de
Eric katz is a sin to correspond with thend publicatin governor executive and recently published a piece take a look at federal employees and how they been impacted by covid19. Morning. Good morning. Paint a picture overall will be our first number of employee employees. So the number of employees with tested positive is over 10,000 and thats been growing pretty rapidly. A lot of these workers are on the front lines so their exposure rates are pretty elevated. Weve seen that kind of climb at a pretty rapid rate. The Defense Department has a lot of positive cases, delivering healthcare, employees have a lot of cases and the Postal Service is also there. They are out there every day. They are acting with customers and doing the rounds so that has left a fairly high exposure although were talking about over 2 million federal employees here. Thats to be expected that the would be some cases. If youre talking and saying frontline people like the deity, like the v. A. , like the Postal Servi