UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

OFFICE OF HEARINGS 

IN THE MATTER OF: 

FDMS No. 

1 

THE PUERTO RICO 

POLICE DEPARTMENT FAA-2013-1086 

Respondent 

Thursday, 

October 13, 2016 

The teleconference convened, pursuant 

to notice, at 10:30 a.m. 

BEFORE: 

THE HONORABLE J.E. SULLIVAN, 

Administrative Law Judge 

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APPEARANCES: 

On Behalf of th~ Complainant: 

CHRISTOPHER R. STEVENSON, ESQ. 

of: Office of the Regional Counsel, AS0-7 

Southern Region 

Federal Aviation Administration 

1701 Columbia Avenue 

College Park, Georgia 30337 

(404) 305-5200 

On Behalf of the Respondent: 

NAZIHRA M. ABDULRAHMAN SOLER, ESQ. 

BETMAR R. LOPEZ PAGAN, ESQ. 

of: Puerto Rico Police Department 

Office of Legal Affairs 

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P.O. Box 71200 

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 

(787) 783-1234 ex. 3067, 2203 

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1 P-R-0-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 

2 (10:41 a.m.) 

3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: We're on the record 

4 in the matter of Puerto Rico Police Department. 

5 This is Docket Number FAA-2013-1086. Today is 

6 Thursday, October 13, 2016 and the parties have 

7 convened for a Rule 16 litigation scheduling 

8 conference. 

9 I'll note before identifying the 

10 parties, that on August 16, 2016, the Court reset 

11 the Rule 16 litigation scheduling conference to 

12 today's date and time and directed the parties to 

13 submit a new Rule 26(f) scheduling/discovery 

14 plan. 

15 Hereafter, on August, I'm sorry, 

16 October 6, 2 o 16, the FAA and the Respondent, 

17 Puerto Rico Police Department, filed a joint 

18 proposed schedule which the Court has reviewed. 

19 Appearing today on behalf of the 

20 Federal Aviation Administration, which I'll also 

21 refer to by its initials, the FAA, is attorney of 

22 record, Mr. Christopher R. Stevenson. 

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1 On behalf of the Respondent, Puerto 

2 Rico Police Department, there are two identified 

3 counsels. Ms. Nazihra Abdulrahman Soler and Ms. 

4 Betmar Lopez Pagan. Neither counsel has appeared 

5 and there's no explanation for their absence. 

6 Mr. Stevenson, do you have any 

7 information about why the Respondent's counsel 

8 has not appeared today? 

9 MR. STEVENSON: I do not, Your Honor. 

10 As you can see from the joint submission, we did 

11 talk last week about what the schedule should be 

12 but I don't know why they're not here today. 

13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, I'll 

14 note that the Court provided ample notice to the 

15 Respondent of today's date and time. And we are 

16 going to proceed without them. 

17 Mr. Stevenson, let me talk a little 

18 bit about one or two of these dates because I do 

19 have a question for you. And then I want to chat 

20 with you about a summary judgement oral argument 

21 date, as well as some other matters. 

22 But let's talk first about Page 1 of 

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1 the two page joint proposed schedule. You 

2 indicate on Page 1 a request for, let's see, 

3 where do I have that. In March 16, 2017, due 

4 date for a submission of supplemental expert 

5 witness report. 

6 Do you have a due date for the initial 

7 expert rebuttal report or is that what you're 

8 talking about when you call it a supplemental 

9 expert report? 

10 I'm just a little unclear because you 

11 have a December 8, 2016, mutual exchange date for 

12 the initial expert disclosures. 

13 Is that intended to be the disclosures 

14 of who your experts are or a disclosure of who 

15 your experts are and a written report from them? 

16 MR. STEVENSON: December 8th, 2016, 

17 would be a disclosure of who the experts are and 

18 a, either a written report or appropriate 

19 disclosure. 

20 I suspect that it may the case for, it 

21 evolved from a case for the FAA and I suspect it 

22 may be the case for the Puerto Rico Police 

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1 Department, that we don't have retained experts 

2 who have to produce a formal expert report. 

3 So it would be the, you know, the less 

4 formal disclosure of the contents, but it would 

5 be a disclosure of the anticipated testimony of 

6 the expert, not simply an identification of the 

7 expert. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, great. And 

9 then there is a deadline of March 16, 2017, for 

10 the exchange or the submission of supplemental 

11 expert witness reports. It follows, however, the 

12 end of the deposition period for experts. 

13 And I wanted to ask a little bit about 

14 that because typically your expert rebuttal 

15 reports come in before the deposition period 

16 closes so that you can ask the expert, if you 

17 depose him or her, about that supplemental or 

18 rebuttal report. 

19 Can you tell me if the parties had 

20 considered that when you put together this 

21 section? Because I don't want to be in a 

22 position where I have the parties deposing an 

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1 expert witness, and then getting a supplemental 

2 report from the expert after the deposition 

3 period closes and be unable to address that with 

4 the expert. 

5 MR. STEVENSON: Your Honor, this was 

6 not something that the Respondent and I had 

7 discussed in this particular case. This is a 

8 formatting a general scheduling order that, order 

9 of events that I have used in a number of cases. 

10 And I don't think I had thought about that and it 

11 hadn't been raised before. 

12 My thoughts in phrasing it like that 

13 were that that would be an opportunity for an 

14 expert witness to supplement their opinions as 

15 necessary once the deposition period was over for 

16 the fact witnesses. 

17 And so there may be additional 

18 development of facts that would cause the expert 

19 to modify their opinion. And that was the, as 

20 well as responding to the other sides, expert 

21 reports. 

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1 MR. STEVENSON: And that that's what 

2 would, the supplemental expert witness report 

3 would cover. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, why don't we do 

5 this. I'm going to make a suggestion to you. 

6 Instead of having their expert supplemental 

7 reports after the deposition period is over, 

8 let's put that up before the deposition period is 

9 finished because you want, I think, you want to 

10 give yourself an opportunity to schedule a 

11 deposition of a witness, an expert witness, after 

12 you've received all potential testimonial facts 

13 and opinions from that witness. 

14 So would you be willing to consider 

15 setting the expert rebuttal or supplemental 

16 witness report, say in, I'm just going to throw 

17 this out and I need to get my 2017 time, let's 

18 say February 15, 2017? 

19 And then we can have the deadline for 

20 taking depositions March 16, 2017, or March 10? 

21 Something along those lines? 

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1 any problems with that. Let me just verify with 

2 my calendar. That, no, I still would not have 

3 any problem with that, Your Honor. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Let's say 

5 February 15, 2017, for the expert rebuttal or 

6 supplemental reports. And then a deadline to 

7 take deposition to be, say, March 10. And then 

8 you still have the March 16, 2107, deadline for 

9 requesting general discovery just in case 

10 something comes up. 

11 And then it looks to me like I'm happy 

12 to accept all your other proposed dates. I'm 

13 just going to go through and check, check, check. 

14 And that means we need to talk about 

15 a telephone motion conference for the September 

16 2017 period for the potential summary judgement 

17 motion and then a hearing schedule in, let's say, 

18 early February 2018, for resolution of any 

19 remaining matters. 

20 Looking at your September 2017 

21 calendar, I'm just going to throw out a date or 

22 two and then you can tell me if it works for you. 

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1 Would the week of September lOth, 2017, work for 

2 you for a 90 minute telephone conference? 

3 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, Your Honor. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Do you have any 

5 preferred day or time during that week that you 

6 want to look at? 

7 MR. STEVENSON: I am very open on 

8 that. I usually have regularly scheduled 

9 meetings on well, Monday afternoon, but. 

10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: What about Thursday, 

11 September 14th at 1:30? Would that work? 

12 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, it would, Your 

13 Honor. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. We'll plan on 

15 that and it will be 90 minutes, from 1:30 to 3:00 

16 p.m., Eastern Time. And if we don't use all of 

17 that time, that's great. We'll end a little 

18 early. 

19 Let's talk about the hearing time. 

20 And I wanted to ask you a couple questions about 

21 the complaint itself. 

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1 violations you're alleging in this particular 

2 case, although it was clear that there were three 

3 specifically identified dates of airplane 

4 operation in violation of certain regulations. 

5 And the dates that I picked up from 

6 your complaint were November 9, 2010, February 

7 10, 2011, and March 3rd, 2011. 

8 I was wondering if you are or had, 

9 were intending in your complaint to charge three 

10 primary violations, or if you are simply looking 

11 at asking me to look at so many different 

12 regulations you claim were violated. What are 

13 you doing here, because it's not clear to me? 

14 MR. STEVENSON: Well, the number of 

15 rank regulations violated in and of itself does 

16 not typically affect the penalty. So we were 

17 alleging that there are, there were three flights 

18 that would be act of violation and that each of 

19 those flights involves the operation of the pilot 

20 of the aircraft, as well as the other operational 

21 violations. 

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1 MR. STEVENSON: But the number of 

2 regulations involved on a particular flight in 

3 this case is not something we compounded that the 

4 penalty based on. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So essentially 

6 in looking at your complaint, there are three 

7 acts, each of which has about four counts of 

8 regulatory violations, each on a complaint? Is 

9 that what I'm looking at? 

10 MR. STEVENSON: That is the case for 

11 the Part 91 violations. 

12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

13 MR. STEVENSON: The act for the 43.9 

14 violation it would, I mean, the actual violation 

15 that occurred there would be when the, mainly 

16 when the aircraft was approved for a return to 

17 service without an NN entry being made. 

18 I'll be honest, Your Honor, since 

19 there was some significant down time in this case 

20 I will have to go back and 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

22 MR. STEVENSON: -- go over the file 

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1 before I could get into the details of --

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

3 MR. STEVENSON: how I arranged 

4 things. I'm sorry. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. I'll need to 

6 know at some point so that I can prepare for 

7 trial as well. 

8 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, Your Honor. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: It may be something 

10 that will be addressed if summary judgement 

11 motions are filed. But I'll just note for you. 

12 It was unclear from the complaint for my 

13 purposes, exactly how to look at the complaint 

14 and what was being alleged. 

15 Okay. That's helpful. So let's talk 

16 about the three hearing dates. You have --

17 PARTICIPANT: Pardon the interruption. 

18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes? 

19 PARTICIPANT: This is Belisa with AT&T 

20 teleconferencing. 

21 

22 

Betmar Lopez is trying to join your 

conference and she's having trouble. 

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1 right for me to dial her into your conference? 

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes. 

3 PARTICIPANT: Okay. Then I' 11 have 

4 her for you in a few moments. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you. 

6 PARTICIPANT: Sorry for disturbing. 

7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you. I'll note 

8 for our record that we just had an interruption 

9 from an AT&T conference call operator and it 

10 appears that one of the Respondent's co-counsel 

11 is going to be connected to the conference 

12 shortly. As of this time it's approximately 

13 10:55 in the morning, Eastern Time. 

14 So Mr. Stevenson, turning back to you. 

15 Let's look at our February calendar of 2018 for 

16 those three dates. 

17 And I'm going to point you to 

18 February, the week of February 12, 2018. Do you 

19 have any blackout times during that particular 

20 week at this time? 

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1 this particular case, and you may know more about 

2 travel to Puerto Rico than I since you're located 

3 a little farther south in the hemisphere than I 

4 am, but do you know whether or not it's better to 

5 schedule for a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or a 

6 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, in terms of plane 

7 routes and hotels? 

8 MR. STEVENSON: I think that if the 

9 hearing went through a Friday morning it may be 

10 problematic, depending on what the city fare 

11 carrier is. I don't know who the city fare 

12 carrier is for between D.C. and San Juan to get a 

13 flight out, to get to the airport and get a 

14 flight out that afternoon. 

15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

16 MR. STEVENSON: It's a longer flight 

17 than one might think. I think even from here 

18 it's three or three and a half hours to San Juan. 

19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So probably 

20 it's better to schedule it for a Tuesday, 

21 Wednesday, Thursday time period with Monday and 

22 Friday being flight time? 

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1 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, Your Honor. 

2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, then 

3 turning back to you, in looking at the week of 

4 February 12, 2018, does that look like a viable 

5 week for your client? 

6 MR. STEVENSON: It is a viable week 

7 for me. Of course I have not, I will have to 

8 confirm that with potential witnesses. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, I'm 

10 asking you to confirm it for as much as you can. 

11 It sounds like you'll be available? 

12 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, Your Honor. 

13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Then let's 

14 plan on --

15 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Hello? 

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'll note that I just 

17 heard a hello. May I ask who's speaking? 

18 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, hi. This is 

19 Betmar Lopez speaking from the police Puerto Rico 

20 Police Department. 

21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And Ms. Lopez 

22 Pagan, as I understand it, you're co-counsel for 

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1 the Puerto Rico Police Department? 

2 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, correct. I'm 

3 here with Ms. Nazihra Abdulrahman. 

4 MS. ABDULRAHMAN SOLER: Good morning. 

5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So both co6 counsel are present now? 

7 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes. 

8 MS. ABDULRAHMAN SOLER: Yes. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And which one of you 

10 is lead counsel and, which means, who will be 

11 speaking from here on out? 

12 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: I will be speaking, 

13 Betmar Lopez. 

14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And Ms. Lopez, 

15 I'm going to ask you to stay on the line after 

16 the Court leaves because you'll need to spell 

17 your name and your co-counsel's name to the court 

18 reporter if he needs it. 

19 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Okay. 

20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm going to 

21 interrupt the proceedings for a moment and just 

22 ask you, Ms. Lopez, why you did not appear at 

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1 10:30 this morning which was the start time for 

2 this conference? 

3 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, we are very 

4 sorry. First of all, we thought it was Eastern 

5 Time so we thought it was at 11:30. And 

6 afterwards we had been trying to communicate but 

7 it was not possible until now. So we are very 

8 sorry for that. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, it is Eastern 

10 Time, at 10:30 in the morning Eastern Time. It 

11 started a half hour ago. So is Puerto Rico on a 

12 different time zone than Washington D.C.? 

13 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Well, we were not 

14 sure about that but we researched and we thought 

15 that it was 11:30 Eastern Time for the conference 

16 But it is not that hour. 

17 MR. STEVENSON: Your Honor? 

18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes, Mr. Stevenson? 

19 MR. STEVENSON: I apologize. There are 

20 a, relative information, if I recall correctly 

21 Puerto Rico is not on Eastern Time but I believe 

22 that Puerto Rico also does not observe daylight 

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1 savings time. 

2 So depending on the time of year, 

3 Puerto Rico either is or is not consistent with 

4 Eastern Time and that, or how far it is different 

5 in that. Opposing counsel will be able to clarify 

6 that but that might contribute to the confusion 

7 about the start time. 

8 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, correct. And we 

9 are very sorry for that confusion. 

10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: What time is it right 

11 now in Puerto Rico, Ms. Lopez? 

12 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: 11 o'clock. 11: 01. 

13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, it's 

14 11:01 here as well. 

15 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes. Yes, we realize 

16 that now. 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. In the future 

18 you're welcome to contact my staff if you have any 

19 confusion about time zones and time periods to 

20 make sure that you appear on time for any and all 

21 future conferences. Do you have any questions 

22 about that? 

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1 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: No. We don't have 

2 any questions and we will do so. Thank you very 

3 much. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, then I 

5 will simply retask for you and your colleague that 

6 I've gone through most of the proposed schedule 

7 already with Mr. Stevenson. 

8 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Okay. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I've made one or two 

10 changes with his consent and I have also scheduled 

11 a telephone motion conference for Thursday, 

12 September 14, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. for any 

13 dispositive motion that either party wants to file 

14 for the oral argument for that. 

15 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Okay. 

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And then he and I were 

17 just talking about trial dates for February, in 

18 the year 2018. And since you've just appeared, 

19 I'm going to talk to you about your calendar 

20 availability for this February time period. 

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1 blackout unavailability? And I'm going to ask you 

2 to stop and not answer until I'm finished talking 

3 because this is being court reported and I can't 

4 have more than one person talking at one time. 

5 So currently, in looking at your 

6 calendar, do you have the week of February 12, 

7 2018 open? 

8 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: We are very fine. 

9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And you said we are 

10 very fine. Does that mean that you are answering 

11 yes, I have the week of February 12th, 2018 open? 

12 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, we do. 

13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Good. Then I 'm 

14 going to schedule this for a hearing on February 

15 13, 14, and 15, in 2018. And that will be in the 

16 San Juan Puerto Rico area. 

17 Ms. Lopez, can you tell me just 

18 briefly, do you have any familiarity with the U.S. 

19 District Court in San Juan? 

20 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: I have familiarity 

21 with the proceedings. Is that the question? 

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1 was rather vague. I'll rephrase it. How familiar 

2 are you with the availability of courtrooms at the 

3 San Juan u.s. District Courthouse? 

4 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: I don't have that 

5 information. 

6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Then what I 

7 will do is I will have my staff check on that, 

8 probably in the fall of 2017. And hopefully we'll 

9 be able to reserve a courtroom in San Juan. 

10 But if we cannot, if they're all booked 

11 up, what's the next nearest place to go for a u.s. 

12 District courtroom? Do you know? 

13 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: I am not sure right 

14 now. We could look that information. 

15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, why don't we 

16 just put a hold on that and we'll hope that we can 

17 get a courtroom available. And if we can't, we 

18 can convene and talk about alternate venues. Does 

19 that sound reasonable, Mr. Stevenson? 

20 MR. STEVENSON: Yes, Your Honor. I 

21 would note that it's, based on my, obviously much 

22 more limited experience with Puerto Rico. If 

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1 there is not a courthouse available in the San 

2 Juan area it is probably a, I would, my guess 

3 would be that there will not be a courthouse 

4 available within a couple of hours drive of San 

5 Juan. so it ' s --

6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 

7 MR. STEVENSON: Yes. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, let's 

9 hope that we don't have problems and that a 

10 courtroom can be reserved early on. It's a little 

11 too soon right now to ask the Court to reserve 

12 because they typically don't schedule out this far 

13 in advance for visiting judges. 

14 MR. STEVENSON: Okay. 

15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: But I'll have the 

16 matter checked on my calendar around the same time 

17 that we do the summary judgement oral argument, 

18 which should be plenty of time prior to the 

19 February 2018 hearing to get an answer on that. 

20 So what I will do is, I will accept all 

21 the other deadlines and dates that the parties 

22 have reviewed and proposed to the Court except for 

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1 the deadline of March 16, 2017 for expert 

2 supplemental or rebuttal reports. 

3 I've moved that up to February 15, 

4 2017, and I've also moved the deadline for taking 

5 depositions from March 2nd, 2017, to March 10, 

6 2017. 

7 And by doing that I'm giving the 

8 parties a little window of time to depose expert 

9 witnesses before all discovery closes. 

10 With that, I will be issuing a 

11 litigation scheduling order that codifies all the 

12 parties' proposals and the Court's changes, as 

13 well as the telephone motion conference time and 

14 the hearing dates. 

15 Included in this litigation scheduling 

16 order, you'll find information about how to raise 

17 motions and request oral argument on my calendar 

18 for any issues that haven't been addressed today 

19 by the parties. 

20 You' 11 also find some information about 

21 how to request an optional conference with the 

22 Court regarding discovery disputes that might 

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1 arise. This optional conference is provided in 

2 the event you think you can get something resolved 

3 short of filing a formal motion. 

4 It may be that you have the optional 

5 telephone conference and then find that you need 

6 to file a motion anyway. But for purposes of 

7 efficiency, I'm adding this in since it'S 

8 something that the U.S. District Court has been 

9 testing as well and has found to be fairly useful 

10 for the parties. 

11 There's also going to be information in 

12 this litigation order about how to mark your 

13 exhibits when the case, if the case goes to trial, 

14 what to do if you want to withdraw counsel on the 

15 case, and so forth. 

16 Ms. Lopez, just so you know, prior to 

17 you getting on the phone I was asking Mr. 

18 Stevenson a little bit about the complaint and the 

19 allegations in the complaint. 

20 I was interested in knowing how many 

21 acts of violation there were and whether or not 

22 there were counts within each of the violations so 

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1 that I had a better understanding of what the 

2 issues were. 

3 I'm going to ask you a few questions 

4 about your case before you close. It's my 

5 understanding from looking at your answer that 

6 you're alleging that none of these allegations are 

7 true and that the violations were not committed as 

8 stated in the complaint. 

9 Can you tell me, are you saying that 

10 nothing happened and that the FAA is completely 

11 mistaken about this? Or tell me a little bit more 

12 about what the actual defense is as far as you 

13 know. 

14 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Okay. As far as I 

15 know in regards with the first alleged violations 

16 that were on March 2011, the information that we 

17 have is that the violations were not committed as 

18 stated. 

19 The position of our client is that he 

2 0 did the flight and based on his experience and 

21 based on the flight that he was going to do and 

22 the purpose of the plane, so he took that 

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1 determination. He believes that it wasn't a 

2 violation to any of the several dispositions. 

3 Nevertheless, in regards with the 

4 allegations of that case the Puerto Rico Police 

5 Department took measurements and the pilot, as you 

6 know, had his license suspended by the Federal 

7 Aviation Administration. 

8 And also internally we conducted an 

9 administrative procedure which had sanctions. We 

10 also took measurements in regards with the 

11 personal, the requirements and we asked them with, 

12 we gave them some additional training so that no 

13 other actions that could imply the violations 

14 would happen again. 

15 After that first --

16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm going to stop you. 

17 I'm going to stop you. I'll simply note a process 

18 for the record. During this narrative I noticed 

19 that you turned to your co-counsel and spoke to 

20 her in Spanish and then got a response from her 

21 and then started your narrative again. 

22 And that is not an appropriate way to 

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1 appear before the Court. When you're speaking to 

2 the Court you speak in English only. That's the 

3 language of this particular action and you do not 

4 talk to other people, most particularly not in 

5 another language because this matter is being 

6 court reported. And everything that you say must 

7 appear on the record. 

8 If you need time to talk to co-counsel, 

9 you need to tell me that so that I can say, you 

10 would say something like this. Your Honor, I need 

11 to consult privately with my co-counsel for a 

12 moment. May I do that? 

13 And I will typically say, of course, at 

14 which point you cover your phone, speak quietly so 

15 nobody can hear you, and then you get back on the 

16 line. Does that, do you understand that? 

17 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, completely. 

18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Good. So in 

19 the future, if you need to consult with co-counsel 

20 you just tell me. I will most likely give you 

21 permission to do that and then you can speak off 

22 the record with that person for a moment. 

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1 Okay. Now let me ask you something 

2 before you proceed. You've stated to me that your 

3 pilot was suspended as I know. Why would you 

4 think I would know that other than because you 

5 told me in your answer? 

6 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: No, I only said it 

7 because it was in the allegation in the action. 

8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Do you 

9 understand that I'm not an employee with the FAA? 

10 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, I understand. 

11 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So whatever the 

12 FAA knows and whatever the FAA has shared with you 

13 in the past, I know nothing about that. The only 

14 thing that I know is what has been filed in the 

15 court record. 

16 So unless you or Mr. Stevenson tell me 

17 either orally or in writing, I don't know. Which 

18 is why I'm asking for this little summary. 

19 So as I understand it, there is some 

20 assertion by you that you took measurements or 

21 actions after the allegations by the FAA were made 

22 known to you and as part of those measurements or 

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1 actions, you want those things to be acknowledged 

2 as mitigating or as important in terms of looking 

3 at the fines. Is that what you're trying to say 

4 to me? 

5 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes. 

6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, that's 

7 one part of the case obviously. The other part 

8 is, one part of the case is the proposed civil 

9 penalty and that proposed civil penalty is 

10 assessed against whatever violations are found. 

11 So typically what I look at first and 

12 foremost, is what the violations are and what is 

13 in dispute about those violations. And then as a 

14 second part of the case I look at the proposed 

15 civil penalty. 

16 So right now what I want to talk about 

17 just very briefly is just about the violations, 

18 not about the proposed civil penalty. 

19 In terms of the violations, is it your 

20 assertion based on your answer, that some of the 

21 violations alleged actually either didn't happen 

22 or can't be proved? 

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1 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Based on the 

2 information that we received the continuing 

3 allegation is that it's been inaccurate. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Well, then I 

5 think that you folks are going to have a very 

6 interesting discovery period which will start 

7 pursuant to the parties agreements as of today. 

8 Mr. Stevenson, turning to you, on 

9 behalf of the FAA, is there anything else we need 

10 to address for your client today before we close? 

11 MR. STEVENSON: No, Your Honor. 

12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Ms. Lopez, on 

13 behalf of your client is there anything else we 

14 need to address today? 

15 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: We believe that a 

16 motion that we had filed is still pending? 

17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes. You have a 

18 motion to dismiss that you filed as part of your 

19 answer on July 23rd, 2016. And that motion to 

20 dismiss was reserved by the Court when it issued 

21 its August 15, 2016, order. 

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1 dismiss which is on Page 3 of your filing, 

2 received by the Office of Hearings on July 23rd, 

3 2016, that you're essentially stating that the 

4 violations were not committed. That's in Section 

5 3, Page 3. 

6 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Yes, ma'am. 

7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, typically that 

8 is a general denial that doesn't get ruled upon by 

9 the Court until the parties file for either 

10 summary judgement or the parties go to hearing. 

11 I certainly am not in a position now to 

12 rule upon it because there has been no evidence 

13 submitted to me one way or the other. So it's 

14 premature for me to rule upon it unless you were 

15 making a motion that is different from what I 

16 understand it to be. 

17 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: No, that would be it. 

18 JUDGESULLIVAN: Okay. Well, thenit's 

19 simply too early for me to rule on that motion 

20 because I haven't seen any submission of evidence 

21 in support of your assertion that you didn't 

22 commit anything. You're just telling me that. 

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1 And so I look forward to hearing more 

2 about that once the parties finish some discovery 

3 exchange and present some information to me more 

4 formally. 

5 We do have a summary judgement schedule 

6 that the parties have agreed to as you already 

7 know in your joint proposed schedule. You're 

8 welcome to file your summary judgement materials 

9 at any time, but right now we have a due date for 

10 submission of that material by either party, on or 

11 before July 11, 2017. 

12 So if you and Mr. Stevenson decide at 

13 a certain point, later this year or early next 

14 year that you're finished with discovery exchange 

15 and you're ready to file your summary judgement 

16 motion, depending, you're welcome to file them 

17 prior to July 11, 2017, and request that the whole 

18 time period get moved up for the dispositive 

19 motion schedule. 

20 Is that helpful at all to you? 

21 

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1 questions, Ms. Lopez, on behalf of your client 

2 before we close? 

3 MS. LOPEZ PAGAN: Nothing more. 

4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: All right. Then I'm 

5 going to thank all counsel for appearing today and 

6 for the work that you did in providing the October 

7 6, 2016, joint proposed schedule. 

8 Our next telephone conference is 

9 scheduled for Thursday, September 14, 2017, 1:30 

10 p.m. Eastern Time. 

11 I look forward to talking with you 

12 then. If you need an earlier motion conference 

13 for any reason, the litigation order that I'll be 

14 sending out to you today will have information 

15 about how to do that. 

16 With that we can go off the record and 

17 I wish you all a good day. Thank you. 

18 (Whereupon, the above-entitled matter 

19 went off the record at 11:22 a.m.) 

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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: Puerto Rico Police Department 

Before: USDOT/OH 

Date: 10-13-16 

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 

(202) 234-4433 

NEAL R. GROSS 

COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 

1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 WNW.nealrgross.com