United States DC Circuit

Petition for review of an FCC ruling that providers of broadband Internet access and voice over Internet protocol, or "VoIP," services are regulable as "telecommunications carriers" under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is denied over petitioners' claims that the FCC's interpretation of CALEA was unlawful.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2006
• Decided 06/09/2006
• Published 06/09/2006

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew A. Brill argued the cause for petitioners.   With him on the briefs were Maureen E. Mahoney, Richard P. Bress, Barry J. Blonien, James Xavier Dempsey, John B. Morris, Jr., Albert Gidari, Gerard J. Waldron, Andrew J. Schwartzman, Harold J. Feld, Jason Oxman, and Marc Rotenberg.  John M. Devaney entered an appearance.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacob M. Lewis, Attorney, Federal Communications Commission, argued the cause for respondent.   With him on the brief were Samuel L. Feder, General Counsel, John E. Ingle, Deputy Associate General Counsel, and Joseph R. Palmore, Counsel., Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Douglas N. Letter, Litigation Counsel, and Scott R. McIntosh, Attorney, were on the brief for respondent United States., Michael E. Glover, Karen Zacharia, Joshua E. Swift, John Scott, Samir C. Jain, and Meredith B. Halama were on the brief for intervenors Verizon and Verizon Wireless in support of respondents.