[h2 class="pagetitle"]Court Calls FCC CALEA Ruling "Gobbledygook ... Utter Nonsense" [/h2][h2 class="date"]May 05, 2006[/h2]Today, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a suit brought by EFF and a coalition of public interest, industry, and academic groups challenging the FCC's unjustified expansion of the [a href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/"]Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)[/a]. The suit argues that the FCC ignored the plain language of CALEA by forcing broadband and VoIP providers to become wiretap-friendly.[/p]According to News.com, the court [a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6069105.html?part=rss&tag=6069105&subj=news"]is also skeptical[/a] of the FCC's power over Internet services:[/p] [blockquote]"'This is wholly ridiculous,' [Judge Harry] Edwards said, saying that Congress' meaning was clear. The FCC's argument 'is such gobbedlygook, it's really funny.... It's utter nonsense.'"[/blockquote] AP also [a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/05/judge_fccs_rule.html"]reported[/a] on the hearing.[/p]
