Galvan v. Levine

How later courts describe this case

• challenging a state policy of denial of unemployment benefits to claimants who moved to an area of high persistent unemployment
• In the absence of “dispositive” or “indicative” state law, application of federal law is appropriate.
• no violation of state or federal law where federal narcotics agents assist in monitoring interceptions pursuant to order assigning responsibility to state narcotics law enforcement officers
• “in a narcotics conspiracy, the use of code words and cover-up jargon in methods of dealing make investigation most difficult.”
• no suppression where every telephone call was intercepted and recorded although 50% were nonpertinent
• arrest by Nebraska police officer of a person in Iowa treated as an arrest by private person
• appellant LaCosa convicted of separate substantive, conspiracy, and section 848 offenses
• dicta that state law may apply