Nevada Supreme Court: Law permits tapping cell phones

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled Nevada’s 40-year-old wiretap law permits the interception of text messages and cell phone calls even though those things didn’t exist when it passed.The wiretap law was actually intended to protect people’s privacy rights by requiring a judge to issue a warrant before police or others could tap their phones.Justices Mark Gibbons, Nancy Saitta and Kristina Pickering made the ruling this week in upholding the conviction of Philip Douglas Sharpe of Lyon Coun