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IN THE MATTER OF: 

DANIEL QUINONEZ 

DMS No. 

FAA-2012-0473 

(Civil Penalty Action) 

Friday, 

August 10, 2012 

The above-entitled matter came on 

for litigation scheduling via teleconference, 

pursuant to notice, at 11:00 a.m. 

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On Behalf of the Respondent: 

FRANCES VARGAS 

of: 1012 Eastern Avenue 

Fall River, MA 02723 

(508)496-8710 

On Behalf of the Complainant: 

R. BENNETT SARGENT, ESQ. 

of: Office of the Regional Counsel 

New England Region 

Federal Aviation Administration 

12 England Executive Park, ANE-7 

Burlington, MA 01803 

(781)238-7058 

ALSO PRESENT: 

DANIEL QUINONEZ 

CODY L. SMITH, FAA 

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3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: We're on the 

4 record in the matter of Daniel Quinonez. This 

5 is Docket Number FAA-2012-0473. Today is 

6 Friday, August 10, 2012, and the parties have 

7 convened by telephone for a Litigation 

8 Scheduling Conference. 

9 The FAA attorney, R. Bennett 

10 Sargent, is present and appearing on behalf of 

11 the FAA . 

12 The Respondent, Daniel Quinonez, 

13 is present but apparently asleep in the room 

14 in which he and his daughter are 

15 teleconferencing from. 

16 Appearing on behalf of Mr. 

17 Quinonez is his daughter, Frances Vargas, and, 

18 Ms. Vargas, I'll have some questions for you 

19 about your representation in just a minute. 

20 MS. VARGAS: Okay, thank you. 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I' 11 also note 

22 that appearing at the Office of Hearings as an 

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1 observer is Attorney at Law Cody L. Smith. 

2 Good morning, everyone. 

3 MR. SARGENT: Good morning. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Why don't I 

5 start, Ms. Vargas, with you. It's my 

6 understanding that you are Mr. Quinonez's 

7 daughter, is that correct? 

8 MS. VARGAS: That is correct. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And you 

10 want to appear on his behalf today? 

11 MS. VARGAS: Yes. 

12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Is there 

13 some reason why Mr. Quinonez is not awake for 

14 this proceeding so that he can assure me that 

15 he wants you to serve as his representative? 

16 MS. VARGAS: Yes, he broke his 

17 hand a couple of days ago. He's 60 years old 

18 and he broke his hand. He's not feeling well 

19 so he's medicated. He didn't sleep well last 

20 night so he's sleeping right now. 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Are you 

22 planning to appear on his behalf for other 

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3 MS. VARGAS: Absolutely, yes, if I 

4 have to --

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm going to ask 

6 you to wait, Ms. Vargas, until I finish 

7 talking. My question to you is are you 

8 planning to appear today just because he's on 

9 medication or are you planning to appear 

10 throughout the proceeding? 

11 MS. VARGAS: Hello? Oh, okay. 

12 You there? My apologies, my phone's acting 

13 up. Can you hear me? Okay. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'll ask this 

15 question again to you, Ms. Vargas. 

16 MS. VARGAS: Thank you. 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And I want you to 

18 wait until I finish asking the question. Can 

19 you do that? 

20 MS. VARGAS: Yes. 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Are you 

22 planning to appear simply today for your 

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2 to attend or --

3 MS. VARGAS: Yes. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: or are you 

5 planning to appear for him throughout this 

6 proceeding? 

7 MS. VARGAS: Throughout this whole 

8 proceeding. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So what 

10 that means to me is that you have discussed 

11 this matter with your father and he does not 

12 want to hire an attorney, 1s that correct? 

13 MS. VARGAS: That is correct. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Are you a lawyer 

15 by any chance? 

16 MS. VARGAS: I am not. 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Do you have any 

18 legal experience and, if so, what kind? 

19 MS. VARGAS: Legal experience, no. 

20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Have you 

21 ever appeared as a representative for someone 

22 in a court proceeding? 

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1 MS . VARGAS : No . 

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: All right. So 

3 this would be your first time? 

4 MS. VARGAS: Yes, it is. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Can you 

6 tell me what your educational background is? 

7 For example, have you graduated from high 

8 school, from community college, from college, 

9 that kind of thing? 

10 MS. VARGAS: I graduated from high 

11 school in 1995 and I did go to one technical 

12 school, Rob Roy Hair School, and I did not 

13 graduate from that school. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Do you 

15 have any particular employment that deals with 

16 reading, writing, communication? 

17 MS. VARGAS: Yes, I'm a warehouse 

18 supervisor and in that job you have to read, 

19 write and communicate. 

20 And I'm also a server. I serve 

21 food at various restaurants and in also that 

22 job you definitely have to read, write and 

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1 communicate with people. 

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, so you have 

3 some experiences then responding to written 

4 materials it sounds like. 

5 MS. VARGAS: I do. 

6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Do you 

7 have any experience in legal analysis? Have 

8 you ever taken 

9 MS. VARGAS: Only personal 

10 experience. 

11 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And I 

12 don't want to get into a lot of personal data 

13 with you because that's not necessary, but in 

14 terms of personal experience, have you had a 

15 chance to read legal documents before? 

16 MS. VARGAS: I have. 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And in 

18 terms of what you've read, have you read 

19 things that are entitled Motions, Requests --

20 MS. VARGAS: I have. 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So you 

22 have some smattering of knowledge about that. 

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1 MS. VARGAS: I do. 

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, then 

3 let me ask you first, are you planning to file 

4 what's called a Notice of Appearance which is 

5 a written document stating that you, in fact, 

6 are planning to appear as your father's 

7 official representative in this matter? 

8 MS. VARGAS: If I have to, yes. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I think you do, 

10 yes. 

11 MS. VARGAS: Okay, yes, then I'm 

12 going to. As soon as our phone conference is 

13 over, I believe I'm going to get some 

14 paperwork in the mail at which time I will 

15 read over and then, yes, definitely sign. 

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

17 MR. SARGENT: Your Honor. 

18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes. 

19 MR. SARGENT: Could I step in for 

20 just a second? I'm sorry. 

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1 MR. SARGENT: My apologies. The 

2 need for further clarification of the status 

3 of Ms. Vargas's representation may be saved if 

4 -- we've actually spoken earlier this morning 

5 and it looks like we're going to be able to 

6 negotiate a settlement in the matter, yes, to 

7 obviate the need to further discuss the status 

8 of representation or the filing of any future 

9 documents. 

10 And certainly, if that's not Ms. 

11 Vargas's understanding, she can speak up. But 

12 as I understand it, we've come to an agreement 

13 and the paperwork that she was talking about 

14 is the settlement paperwork -

15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Oh, I see. 

16 MR. SARGENT: that we're going 

17 to file on Monday that we'll exchange. 

18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, well thank 

19 you very much, Mr. Sargent, for that 

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1 let me ask you this. What is it that you 

2 would like to have done today then, given the 

3 fact that you believe a settlement is 

4 imminent? 

5 MR. SARGENT: Well, to be 

6 completely honest, the only reason why we've 

7 went through with the conference is because we 

8 actually just settled the matter within the 

9 hour. 

10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, it's 

11 fine. I mean, this conference was set. You 

12 need to appear if you have not done a final 

13 settlement. 

14 But it sounds to me like you don't 

15 need to go through all of the litigation 

16 process with the Court at this point. 

17 It may be preferable, and I'm just 

18 throwing this out as an option, to continue 

19 this particular matter to a date certain with 

20 the presumption of the parties at this point 

21 that you may be settling prior to the next 

22 litigation scheduling conference. 

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1 MR. SARGENT: Your Honor, we can 

2 certainly do that. I guess my question for 

3 you would be as far as documentation or 

4 communications with your office, what 

5 typically would you like to see in the way of 

6 documentation of a settlement? 

7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: It depends on 

8 what type of settlement that the two of you 

9 reach. 

10 For example, sometimes I'll get a 

11 Notice from an FAA attorney that the FAA is 

12 withdrawing its Complaint because of a 

13 settlement. 

14 Sometimes I get a Notice from the 

15 Respondent stating that the Respondent is 

16 withdrawing his or her or its Request for 

17 Hearing. 

18 Sometimes I get a Notice from the 

19 FAA asking for an Order of Dismissal pursuant 

20 to the regulatory authority that's cited. 

21 Sometimes I get a Notice from both 

22 parties saying, hey, we've settled. We've 

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1 gone through certain settlement agreements. 

2 Here it is. It's attached. Could you dismiss 

3 the proceeding? 

4 So you have a variety of different 

5 options available to you and I accept all of 

6 them. 

7 MR. SARGENT: Okay. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay? So it's up 

9 to the two of you to decide what you would 

10 prefer to have done. 

11 MR. SARGENT: Okay. 

12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, and then 

13 what I'll do is I'll talk to you a little bit 

14 about recalendaring because even with the best 

15 intents I have had cases where people appear 

16 before me, say they have everything almost all 

17 done, they just have to dot some Is and cross 

18 some Ts before the settlement is final, and 

19 then lo and behold something happens and the 

20 settlement falls through and they do, in fact, 

21 then need to set up litigation. 

22 So I'm going to err on the side of 

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1 caution. I will continue this particular 

2 conference out long enough so that the two of 

3 you have plenty of time to exchange paperwork 

4 and talk if that's what you need to do. 

5 And then if you file settlement 

6 papers, I will cancel the next conference and 

7 I'll include that cancellation in the Order I 

8 send out. 

9 So, Mr. Sargent, looking at your 

10 calendar and knowing what you know about this 

11 case, how much time do you think I should set 

12 this case out for? 

13 MR. SARGENT: It will be certainly 

14 feasible for us to finalize a settlement, I 

15 mean, I anticipate it' 11 be within a matter of 

16 days. 

17 So to be on the safe side, if you 

18 wanted to continue it for 30 days I don't 

19 think we'd need any more time than that. 

20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And, Ms. 

21 Vargas, does that sound reasonable to you as 

22 well, a 30-day continuance? 

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2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, 

3 today is August 10, 2012. Thirty days from 

4 now is approximately September 7, 2012. Mr. 

5 Sargent, looking at your calendar, do you have 

6 time available on September 7, 2012, for a 

7 second CR 16 conference? 

8 MR. SARGENT: It looks as though 

9 September 7 would work. 

10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Ms. Vargas, 

11 how about you? 

12 MS. VARGAS: Yes. 

13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

14 MS. VARGAS: That schedule's fine 

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16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Why don't we do 

17 this. Why don't we reset this for the same 

18 time, which would be 11:00 a.m. Eastern 

19 Standard Time on September 7, 2012. 

20 And then I will cancel that 

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2 them and issue an Order, the faster I can 

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4 MR. SARGENT: Okay. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: If for some 

6 reason settlement does not occur, it all falls 

7 through, which happens on occasion, then I 

8 will plan to have a second telephone 

9 conference with you both and we can talk about 

10 setting up trial dates and other matters when 

11 we reconvene on September 7, 2012. Does that 

12 sound acceptable to you, Mr. Sargent? 

13 MR. SARGENT: Yes, absolutely. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And, Ms. Vargas? 

15 MS. VARGAS: Yes. 

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Now before 

17 we end the telephone conference, Mr. Sargent, 

18 I'm going to just mention something to you 

19 that has come up at this office and you can 

20 address it, if you will, with your colleagues. 

21 We've had a variety of these types 

22 of violations come up through to our office 

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1 recently from various regions in the country. 

2 And what's been of interest to us 

3 is the fact that different FAA Counsel have 

4 cited the same United States Code with 

5 variations in the Section of the Code for the 

6 maximum penalty. 

7 We have had different maximums 

8 cited to us ranging from a maximum of $1,100 

9 for the type of violation that Mr. Quinonez 

10 has been cited with to a maximum of $11,000 

11 which is the maximum that you have cited to us 

12 in this particular case, as have other 

13 colleagues of yours in various parts of the 

14 country. 

15 We've done a research through the 

16 legislative history and it appears that the 

17 actual maximum for this type of violation is 

18 $1,100 as some of your colleagues have 

19 asserted to us. 

20 And so I just want to put you on 

21 notice about that. The research isn't 

22 complete yet, but that's the preliminary 

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2 future reference. 

3 MR. SARGENT: I will certainly do 

4 that, Your Honor. Of note, as I understand 

5 it, the civil penalty we had cited in the 

6 matter was, in fact, $1,100 and not $11,000 

7 for this violation. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Right, you 

9 certainly have come way below that, but 

10 according to your Notice of Complaint and the 

11 material that you cited in your Notice of 

12 Complaint, you're saying on Page 2 of your 

13 Notice of Complaint that the maximum penalty 

14 per violation is $11,000. 

15 MR. SARGENT : Oh, okay. I see 

16 what you're saying. 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And I think that 

18 may be incorrect, although the research is 

19 still at the preliminary stage. 

20 And I'm just telling you that 

21 we've had different FAA attorneys cite a 

22 different maximum. So some FAA attorneys have 

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2 like yourself, have cited in the Notice of 

3 Complaint the maximum of $11,000 total. 

4 So we went in and did a research. 

5 We had one of the attorneys in the office. 

6 Mr. Smith, who's sitting as an observer today, 

7 did the research and his preliminary findings 

8 appear to be that the maximum total would be 

9 $1,100. 

10 And I'm just kind of alerting you 

11 to that fact as I'm alerting all the FAA 

12 attorneys who appear before me because I want 

13 to make sure that everybody's on the same page 

14 in terms of the maximum, including this Court. 

15 MR. SARGENT: Okay, thank you. 

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: You're very 

17 welcome. So with that, Mr. Sargent, on behalf 

18 of your client, the FAA, is there anything you 

19 would like to add, correct or discuss on the 

20 record before we finish today? 

21 MR. SARGENT: I don't believe so 

22 at this time. 

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2 Vargas, on behalf of your father, Mr. 

3 Quinonez, is there any question that you have 

4 to ask or any matter you would like to address 

5 before we close today? 

6 MS. VARGAS: No. No, there' s not . 

7 No, thank you. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Thank you 

9 very much for your presence today, everybody. 

10 It appears our business is complete. 

11 I'll look forward to talking with 

12 you on Friday, September 7, 2012, at 11:00 

13 a.m. Eastern Time if, in fact, the parties, 

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C E R T I F I C A T E 

This is to certify that the foregoing transcript 

In the matter of: Daniel Quinonez 

Before: us DOT 

Date: 08-10-12 

Place: teleconference 

was duly recorded and accurately transcribed under 

my direction; further, that said transcript is a 

true and accurate record of the proceedings. 

Court Reporter 

NEAL R. GROSS 

(202) 234-4433 

COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 

1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. 

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