Brandeis dissent of Olmstead implanted the seed that the Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of people. In the case of Olmstead, FBI agents wiretap a bootlegger home …show more content…
In Katz v. Untied States , A gambler was wiretapped by the government at a telephone booth. The case made it to the Supreme Court on the same issue as Olmstead. The dissenting opinion of Olmstead was the basis of the argument used in the ruling of Katz. However, the holding overturned the Olmstead ruling and said that people have an expectation of privacy that society finds reasonable. This ruling prevents government officials from the continuance of unlawfully obtaining evidence and reinforces the Fourth Amendment. It took a liberal court to strike down what was bad law and apply the extension of the Fourth Amendment protection not to property, but to