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..831316870-1 COASTAL AIR TRANS., IN THE MATTER OF 07/30/2012 PAGE 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 3 ON BEHALF OF FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 4 RASHAWN RICH GEORE, ESQUIRE 5 OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL COUNSEL, AS0-7 6 SOUTHERN REGION 7 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 8 P.O. BOX 20636 9 ATLANTA, GA 30320 10 P: 404.305.5200 11 12 ON BEHALF OF COASTAL AIR TRANSPORT, INC. 13 MCHAEL FOSTER, PRESIDENT 14 COASTAL AIR TRANSPORT, INC., RESPONDENT 15 P.O. BOX 3985 16 CHRISTIANSTED, ST. CROIX, VI 00822 17 P: 340.773.6862 18 19 ALSO PRESENT: 20 MR. CODY L. SMITH 21 ATTORNEY AT LAW 22 OFFICE OF HEARINGS 23 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 24 1200 NEW JERSEY AVENUE, S.E. 25 WASHINGTON, DC 20590

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### 1 each other was on June 11, 2012, and at that time the 2 parties appeared for a second CR16 Litigation 3 Scheduling Conference. During that conference, some 4 matters came up and so this Administrative Court 5 deferred setting discovery deadlines, hearing dates, 6 and otherprocedural matters, and reset the conference 7 for today's date, and then of course the time was 8 juggled a littlebit today because of the Court's other 9 conflict. 10 Since the June 11, 2012 second litigation 11 scheduling conference, there have been multiple filings 12 with this office, and I thought I would just identify 13 those. And, I am going to use for the filing date, the 14 date that it was actuallydate stamped as "Received" 15 into the Office of Hearings file. So, on June 18, 16 2012, the FAA filed the Agency's Request for Discovery 17 and Production of Documents. On July 19, 2012, the 18 Office of Hearings received the Respondent's Opposition 19 to Hearing on Sanction Only. On July 23, 2012, the FAA 20 filed an Agency Brief in support of its Alternative 21 Motion for Hearing on Sanction only. That same day, on 22 July 23, 2012, the FAA also filed anAgency Motion to 23 Strike Respondent's Opposition to Hearing on Sanctions 24 Only. In addition, on July 26, 2012, the FAA filed the 25 Complainants' ProposedWitness List, Complainants' Date

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### 7 was a complainant's ProposedWitness List. 8 MR. FOSTER: Okay. 9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: The secondwas the 10 Complainant's Statement regarding venue; and, the third 11 was an Agency Motion to Deem Request for Admissions 12 Admitted, andMotion to Compel Responses to Discovery. 13 MR. FOSTER: Okay, I have not received those 14 yet, of course they don't that was the 26th, today is 15 the 30th, that is four days, so we it is probably in 16 the mailbox today. 17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Most likely, and, I am going 18 to double check andjust see if this was the faxed 19 date, or the mail date that I received those. That was 20 the date that they were faxed to this office. 21 MR. FOSTER: Okay, I haven't 22 JUDGE SULLIVAN: So, do you have a fax 23 machine that is usable, that the FAA can fax these 24 documents to you? 25 MR. FOSTER: Yes, I do.

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# ..16870-1 COASTAL AIR TRANS., IN THE MATTER OF 07/30/2012 PAGE 7 1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 2 MR. FOSTER: Although, the other day I was 3 trying to fax that that last response I made through 4 and it wouldn't it wouldn't accept it on the other end, 5 I guess. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, well we will talk 7 about that. Let me ask the two of you a couple of 8 other questions, and I am going to start with Ms. 9 George; andMr. Foster, just so that you know, in terms 10 of Court etiquette, the Court normally first addresses 11 any new question to the Plaintiff, and then moves to 12 the Respondent for the Respondent's opportunity to talk 13 about things. So, it is just protocol, if you will. 14 MR. FOSTER: Okay. 15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: So, Ms. George, starting 16 with you, after June 11, 2012, the Court had directed 17 you and Mr. Foster to have a second CR26(f) Conference, 18 and talk about a couple of different things including 19 but not limited to the issues of venue, witnesses, time 20 appearing and so forth, did you have that conference? 21 And, if so, when? 22 MS. GEORGE: No, Your Honor, we were unable 23 to verbally speak, which is why I had reduced the 24 Agencies positions to writing, and forwarded those to 25 Mr. Foster and to yourself on July 26.

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1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, and what was the 2 problem in not being able to get together withMr. 3 Fosterbetween June 11, 2012 and today's date, July 30, 4 2012? 5 MS. GEORGE: I was not able to contact himby 6 phone. Mr. Foster did leaveme a voice mail message on 7 July 25th regarding a good faith letter regarding the 8 Discovery that I had forwarded to him on the 20th of 9 July; and, so that is why we just hadn't had an 10 opportunity to speak. So, I wanted to make sure that 11 at least our positions were in writing for today's 12 conference. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, why don't I back track 14 a little bit, after June 11, 2012, what efforts, and 15 can you be specific, did you make to try and reach Mr. 16 Foster to have a telephone conversation with him in 17 compliance with the Court's directives? 18 MS. GEORGE: I don't have any notes of the 19 specific dates, Your Honor, I am sorry. 20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: In the future, please take 21 notes because that is not a question that is unusual 22 for this Court to ask, and when the parties fail to 23 comply with a Court Order, I would like to have very 24 specific identification of the Court's attempt to or a 25 Parties attempt to comply.

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1 MS. GEORGE: I understand. 2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I would expect you in the 3 future to call on June 12, 2012, June 13, 2012, to 4 email June 14, 2012, and so forth, and provide a record 5 of an attempt to comply, so that I can then turn to Mr. 6 Foster and say, "Mr. Foster, now you tell me what you 7 tried to do to comply with the Court Order." 8 MS. GEORGE: I understand, Your Honor, and in 9 the future, we will make sure that we have those notes. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you. Mr. Foster, 11 turning to you, and since you are listening, and I am 12 sure you have an idea of what I am going to be asking 13 at this point, what efforts did you make after June 11, 14 2012 to contact Ms. George to comply with the Court's 15 directive that the two of you talk in a second CR26(f) 16 Conference? 17 MR. FOSTER: Your Honor, I guess I was 18 remised. I was waiting for her to contact me, and I 19 had no communication with her; and we had no messages 20 on our answering machine. 21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Why would you think that it 22 is her obligation only to try and comply with the Court 23 Order, and not yours as well? 24 MR. FOSTER: I don't reallyhave an answer 25 for that. I just felt that she was more or less

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### 1 me, Your Honor. I received it on the 30th. 2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, one of the things that 3 this document does is talk about how the two of you had 4 a conference by telephone onMay 17, 2012, and that you 5 talked about a variety of different things. On Page 6 one of this two page document it says that you had 7 discussed and had agreed to exchange initial discovery 8 requests by June 25, 2012. And, that is where I want 9 to start, because I need to know about how far along 10 you are in your Discovery process according to this 11 written agreement. And, because, Mr. Foster, you are 12 Pro Se, I am not quite sure you understood, or maybe 13 you did, maybe you didn't what Rule 26(a)1 means as it 14 is stated in this document. So, let's talk about that 15 first. In essence, Rule 26(a)1 talks about initial 16 Discovery Disclosures, which do not need to be ordered 17 by the Court. They canbe agreed to by the parties, 18 and the parties can start exchanging this type of 19 material without any Discovery request, without any 20 Court conference, without any Court Order at all. So, 21 this the initial Discovery requests typically are, and 22 I am going to list the most common one. Giving each 23 other the address, phone number, and name of anybody 24 you know who you think andbelieve has information that 25 helps support your claims or defend your claims. And,

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### 1 you give that information to the other side. Number 2 two, you give to the other side a description or a copy 3 of all documents eitherphysical or electronically that 4 you have in your possession, custody or control that 5 couldbe used to support your claims or defenses. And, 6 then number three, you give to the other side a 7 computation of any and all damages ormoney claimed and 8 how you arrived at those computations if you are asking 9 for money relief of any kind in the litigation. So, 10 starting with you, Ms. George, did you disclose those 11 three types of information to Mr. Foster regarding your 12 case in chief by June 25, 2012? 13 MS. GEORGE: 

### Not in a Rule 26(a) Disclosure, 14 no, Your Honor. That type of information has been 15 disclosed to Mr. Foster; however in the Agency's 16 Witness list that we provided on the 20

... I am sorry, 17 27th of July. Also, we provided a breakdown of how we 18 arrived at our Civil Penalty in our previous filings 19 requesting a Motion for a Hearing on Sanction only, and 20 then most recently, in the Agency's Brief in Support of 21 our Hearing on Sanction only, when we had a very 22 explicit discussion about how the Agency arrived at the 23 proposed Civil Penalty in the matter. 24 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

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### 1 still in transit, in the mail? 2 MR. FOSTER: 

### What was the date on that, Your 3 Honor? 4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### This, the Court received on 5 July 23rd 2012. 6 MS. GEORGE: 

### It was mailed to you byExpress 7 Mail, Mr. Foster, on July 20th. 8 MR. FOSTER: 

### July 20th, okay, we have Agency 9 Brief, yes, we have it. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, I am going to ask you 11 both to take a look at Paragraph Page 1 and 2, so this 12 shouldbe fairly easy to find. And, it seems to me 13 from looking at both the Respondent's Opposition 14 statement and the Respondent's Answers, as well as the 15 Agency Brief and the allegations made in the brief, 16 that there are some undisputed facts that are in this 17 particular case; and, itmight be helpful if we just 18 look at those undisputed facts and then go back to the 19 issue of what is actually going to be disputed at 20 potential trial, and what needs to be flushed out in 21 Discovery, what canbe addressed in terms of the 22 Motions that are before the Court, and so forth. So, 23 on Page 1 of the Agency Brief in support of its 24 Alternative Motion for Hearing on Sanction only, the 25 bottom three lines of the first page start with the

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### 1 result, it seems to me that there are some undisputed 2 facts that the parties don't want to fight about. 3 Those facts being that that on or about October 21, 4 2009, Mr. Foster was a Pilot for Coastal Air Transport, 5 andpiloted Flight 413, andbasically carried a 6 cardboardbox containing allegedly hazardous materials. 7 It also appears that there is no dispute that the box 8 contained two plastic bags labeled, "Hazmat Pack." 9 That the bag contained two bottles of approximately 750 10 ml. each labeled, "Fuel Oil UN No. 1993." And, that 11 this shipment was listed and described as the Bill of 12 Lading, and that Mr. Foster signed the Bill of Lading, 13 andbasicallypiloted the plane that carriedthese 14 particularmaterials. And, that Mr. Foster carried the 15 shipment from the plane into the Customs area for 16 inspection when the plane landed. None of those facts 17 seem to be in dispute. What appears to be in dispute 18 between the parties is a: whether the two plastic bags 19 and the contents of the two bottles actually falls 20 within the definition of "hazardous materials;" and 21 whether or not if so, whether Coastal Air was qualified 22 as a carrier to handle hazardous material, and if not, 23 or if so, whether it complied with all of the Hazmat 24 regulations. And, if it wasn't qualified as a carrier, 25 and it was carrying Hazmat materials, you know, what

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### 7 and the Hearing itself, if we can flush out what is 8 actually undisputedby everybody. 9 MS. GEORGE: Okay. You are right, Your 10 Honor, I did take another view of the Response 11 forwarded by Mr. Foster on March 23rd, and I did miss 12 the Paragraph 4 at the top of the secondpage, so I do 13 apologize for that. 14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, and I understand what 15 you are saying in terms of not responding specifically 16 to Paragraph 5, 8 and 9. 17 MS. GEORGE: Yes. 18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: But, it appears to me that 19 if you look and compare the Notice of Complaint with 20 the Respondent's Motion to Dismiss/Answer the 21 Respondent's Opposition and then the FAA's Brief, we 22 actually do have some substantial undisputed facts that 23 can lay the ground work for where the parties really 24 want to extend their energy in discussion. So, in 25 looking at what the Court has just identified as the

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### 23 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, you indicate on the 24 same page, which is Page 2 of your Motion to 25 Dismiss/Answer, under your Answer to Paragraph 15, and

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### c Stephenson,VA22656 800.262.8777 www.CountyCourtReporters.com 877.837.831316870-1 COASTAL AIR TRANS., IN THE MATTER OF 07/30/2012 PAGE 30 1 the shipment of hazardous material." That is what I 2 see as the dispute between the parties. Startingwith 3 you, Ms. George, in general, is that what you see as 4 well? 5 MS. GEORGE: Yes, Your Honor. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Mr. Foster, turning to 7 you next, in general, is that also what you see as the 8 dispute? And, I understand you are going to you also 9 dispute the money issue, but I am just talking about 10 the facts of the alleged violation? 11 MR. FOSTER: No, I agree, Your Honor. It 12 depends on the point of whether the materials were, in 13 fact, considered hazardous. I think it is part of the 14 16 other charges that she has made, that is probably 15 the only one that is valid. One way or the other, and 16 that depends on how you interpret the Regulation. 17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, well if and, let's 18 just assume. I am just saying this as an assumption at 19 this point. Let's assume that this material was 20 hazardous at that point, then the FAA has the ability 21 to cite any and every violation that it sees that 22 happens between the time that the plane took off and 23 the time that the plane landed with the hazardous 24 material. And, I will be talking a little bit about 25 that too, but the fact that there are 16 violations as

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### 1 opposed to one is not unusual, and the Agency does have 2 the ability to citemultiple violations even during a 3 single period of time. But, I think we are getting 4 ahead of ourselves. What I can do then folks to help 5 you in terms of setting this matter for litigation is I 6 will issue an Orderbasically identifying the 7 Undisputed Facts at this point, as we have discussed 8 them. Then, what that means is that the FAA case and 9 chief, and it has the burden to go first, it is 10 narrowed into a more focused area, and itmay ormay 11 not need to call all six witnesses that itjust 12 identified as potential witnesses. And, Mr. Foster, 13 just so that you know, since you have not received that 14 material yet from your mailbox, the FAA has identified 15 to this Court six different people, and I am going to 16 identify them for you now, even though you will get 17 this material in the mail probably today or tomorrow at 18 the latest. 19 Number one, Juan Bulted, an FAA Special 20 Agent; Number two, Cartice Dye, an FAA Manager 21 overseeing the Hazardous Materials Division. Number 22 three, Renael Steele, a U.S. CustomAgent. Number 23 four, Omar Arroyo, a USDA Agricultural Specialist. 24 Number five, Preston Tutein, a U.S. Custom Supervisory 25 Officer, and Number six, Joaquin Puntonet, an FAA

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1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Ms. George, letme 2 turn to you then, do you based on your communications 3 thus far with Mr. Foster, do you need any further 4 information from him regarding the regulations that he 5 believes might support his defense? 6 MS. GEORGE: I do, Your Honor. The 7 Regulations that we actually included with our filing 8 does not do not support the Defense that he is making, 9 and so if he is aware of another Regulation that he is 10 citing to, we would need for him to provide that to us. 11 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Mr. Foster, it appears 12 that there is a disagreement between you and Ms. George 13 regarding the law and how to interpret it. Have you 14 had a chance to do any kind of legal research to see 15 whether your personal interpretation of the Regulation 16 has also been supportedby anybody, at any time either 17 Judges that sit in this office issuing decisions about 18 FAA cases, or by Judges who sit at the

## u. S. Court of 19 Appeals who oversee and review Appeals from this 20 office. Do you have anything to show that you have got 21 some "bang for your buck" in terms of how you are 22 interpreting these Regulations? 23 MR. FOSTER: No, Your Honor, I haven't found 24 anything like that yet. 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, well, that is helpful

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### 9 phone number of Mr. Tattersol along with the Citation 10 of the Regulation that you think really is the one that 11 fits your Defense, faxed to Ms. George by this Friday, 12 which is August 3, 2012? 13 MR. FOSTER: I will try and get a hold of him 14 this afternoon, Your Honor. I am going to be out all 15 day the rest of the week. 16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, when you say, "you are 17 going to try and get a hold of Mr. Tattersol," do you 18 not know his address andphone number? 19 MR. FOSTER: Well, as I said, his company has 20 moved off the island. I spoke with him two weeks ago, 21 and he wasn't sure where he was going or when he was 22 going. We just had our our big oil refineryhere, 23 Hess, shut down. It has caused a big disruption, so I 24 don't know if he is going to be available. 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, I am not sure that you

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### 1 need to confirmhim as a Witness right now, all I am 2 asking you is to give the information that you have in 3 your Custody. Do you have a phone number, and a fax 4 number, and a mailing address potentially for him? 5 What do you have? How would you get a hold of him? 6 MR. FOSTER: 

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### You coulddo that today, 3 before you leave the office, I think. Do you have Ms. 4 George's fax number? 5 MR. FOSTER: 

### I believe we do. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Ms. George, could you give 7 that to Mr. Foster right now so that he has it? 8 MS. GEORGE: 

### Yes, Your Honor. It is 4-0-4-3- 9 0-5-5-2-2-3. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Mr. Foster, do you need that 11 repeated? 12 MR. FOSTER: 

### No, I have it, Your Honor. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, thank you. So, this 14 is the Court's directive to you, Mr. Foster. On or 15 before August 3rd 2012, you are directed to give Ms. 16 George in writing the name, address andphone number of 17 Mr. Tattersol, as you know it. So, if you don't know a 18 current address, you just say "current address not 19 known at this time." But, you give her his name; his 20 title, where he worked, and then you give a little 21 brief statementjust like you toldus on the phone 22 today of what you thinkhe could testify to. 23 MR. FOSTER: 

### Okay, Your Honor. 24 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### In addition, Number two, you 25 cite the Regulation that you think is your Defense, so

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### 1 which is why we are all talking today. Since filing 2 the June 18, 2012 Discoverypacket, Ms. George then 3 filed on July 23rd 2012, the AgencyBrief In Support of 4 its AlternativeMotion for Hearing on Sanction Only. 5 It also filed the FAA filed an AgencyMotion to Strike 6 Respondent's Opposition to Hearing on Sanction Only. 7 And, then Ms. George has filed a July 26, 2012 a 8 variety of different documents. 9 

### Let's talk first about the Request for 10 Discovery and Production of Documents. Accordingjust, 11 if I looked at the May 2nd 20 I am sorry the Rule 26F 12 Report that the parties filed onMay 22nd, 2012, the 13 Request is premature if in fact the parties have until 14 August 2nd 2012 to respond. So, Ms. George, letme ask 15 you about that. Why would you seek on July 30th2012 16 orders limiting discovery when you have already agreed 17 in an earlier writing with Mr. Foster to give himuntil 18 August 2nd 2012 to respond? 19 MS. GEORGE: 

### Your Honor, the report that we 20 had filed indicated that that wouldbe the deadline for 21 any follow-up discovery I am sorry, responses to follow 22 up Discovery Responses. In the last pre-hearing 23 conference that we had, it was the Agency's 24 understanding that at the conclusion of that 25 conference, Your Honor, had given us authority to go on

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### 1 Hearing, the time for the Hearing, the number of 2 witnesses, the type of testimony and so forth; and that 3 the parties wouldbe prepared to answer those questions 4 after discussion and discuss all other litigation 5 matters andprocedures during the July 30, 2012 third 6 civil Rule 16 Litigation telephone conference," which 7 we are having today. 8 So far, what I am hearing from the parties 9 that you did not have a chance to continue your Rules 10 beyond 26(f)oF discussions between June 11, 2012 and 11 today's date, but we have managed to have it today with

12 everybodypresent so that we have an idea of venue, 13 number of witnesses, time.of the hearing, place of the

14 hearing, a littlebit about what is actually at issue. 15 Now, what the Court does is setup the Discovery Plan 16 for the parties, and regardless of what the individual 17 discovery rules say, there is substantial case law and 18 rule and regulation that says that it is the Court's 19 province to set up the Discovery Plan for the Parties 20 and with the Parties. So, I am going to refer you, Ms. 21 George, to a couple of different citations. If you 22 look at and, Mr. Foster, I am referring this to you as 23 well, although you may not have your Court Rule book 24 right in front of you. 25 MR. FOSTER: 

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### 1 FAA Rules about jointprocedural or discovery schedule.

2 MR. FOSTER: 

### Okay. 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### In essence, from 14CFR 4 Section 13.217, talks about how the parties in 5 SubsectionA, "May agree to submit the discovery 6 schedule." Parties are submitting that to the Court. 7 Parties can agree to a variety of different things and 8 the variety talks is addressed in Subsection Dof this 9 particular regulation. The parties can agree to the 10 time of the motions, but it is up to the Court under 11 Sub Section D, to approve the Joint Schedule. To sign 12 it and to issue an order about it. It is up to the 13 Court to resolve any disputes regarding the Discovery 14 schedule. And then, under Subsection F, it starts to 15 talk about Sanction if a party fails to comply with the 16 Judge's order establishing the discovery schedule. So, 17 until you have an Order issuedbyme, you don't really 18 have the constraint of time. So, prior to between the 19 Rule 26(f) conference and the Rule 16 conference, the 20 parties can in any way shape or form they want start to 21 exchange discovery. But, until the Court issues an 22 order and a discoveryplan for the parties, 23 presumptively after the Rule 16 conference, you don't 24 have those rule time defaults into the 30 days that you 25 are talking about under the rules of practice, Ms.

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### 1 the Request for Disclosure of ExpertWitnesses, and any 2 and all of those kinds of things." 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### That is correct. 4 MS. GEORGE: 

### That is where the Agency in its 5 reading of that section of the transcript believed that 6 we were within the Judge's order to go ahead and to 7 propound the Agency's discovery. 8 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### And, you are absolutely 9 correct, you could at any time propound that, you 10 simply could not state that you had a deadline of 30 11 days after the date of propounding, because this Rule 12 16 conference was deferred until today's date, which by 13 the way, was before the August 2nd 2012 deadline that 14 the parties had initially agreed to for exchanging that 15 discovery. So, I am not saying to you that you 16 couldn't have done that. I am saying to you that you 17 could not hold the ProSe Litigant liable for not 18 responding within 30 days of the date of propounding 19 because the Court deferred the Rule 16 conference until 20 today. If the Respondent had answered all of those 21 materials within 30 days, as you hadhoped, and we had 22 all appeared today on July 30, 2012 andbothparties 23 were saying tome all of the discovery is complete, we 24 have maintained a schedule according to our May 2012 25 Rule 26(f) report, we are done, we don't have anything

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### 6 this Court does not have before it, but it does not in 

### 7 any way shape or form assert from this Court, or from 8 the rules in general, that you can bypass the Court's 

### 9 ability to regulate the Discovery for both parties. 10 So, again, I would say to you, I appreciate all of the 11 work that you have done. You won't have to redo it in 12 my opinion, because it has been filed. I simply think 13 that the deadlines need to be addressed by this Court 14 before you can argue for compliance from the 15 Respondent. So, any questions about that, Ms. George? 16 MS. GEORGE: No, Your Honor. 17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Mr. Foster, any 18 questions from you? 19 MR. FOSTER: No, Your Honor. 20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, then again, Mr. 21 Foster, you are obligatedby this Court's directive to 22 comply with givingMs. George initial discovery as we 23 have discussed already on or before August 2nd, excuse 24 me, August 3, 2012. Now, let's talk about General 25 discovery exchange, which is different from initial

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### 1 discovery exchange. And, general discovery exchange is 2 one the things that the Court does have the ability to 3 direct and regulate, unlike the initial discovery under 4 26(a)1. So, Ms. George, you have already served upon 5 the Respondent the DiscoveryRequests, which include 6 the requests for admission, the interrogatories, and 7 the request for production, are you planning to move to 8 depose eitherMr. Foster, orpotentiallyMr. Tattersol 9 are you planning to do any other kinds of discovery 10 requests that you know about at this point under a 11 general discovery directive? 12 MS. GEORGE: 

### No, Your Honor. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay. Mr. Foster, let's 14 turn to you, sir. I will be issuing an order on 15 Discovery and setting up the litigation at,the end of 16 today's conference. This will include setting hearing 17 dates, and other such dates. You have in your 18 possession, and have had in yourpossession since June 19 2012 the FAA's Request for Discovery of Production of 20 Documents. Typically, unless the Court orders 21 otherwise, you have an obligation to respond within 30 22 days of getting the request for production and the 23 Interrogatory. Typically, you have to respond within 24 15 days for the request for admission, but because Ms. 25 George lumped them all together and said, essentially,

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### 1 you have 30 days to respond, the Court is not going to 2 interfere with that. Is there some reason in your 3 opinion that you have not responded to any of this 4 material since you received it in June?

5 MR. FOSTER: 

### Just the work load I have been 6 under, Your Honor. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, well, I am going to 8 give you 30 days from August 3rd, to respond to that 9 material. And, that means I am going to look at my 10 calendar, with the Labor Day Holiday inserted in that, 11 I am going to give you until September 7th, 2012, to 12 respond to all of those things. And, that means that 13 you need to have that filed, and it shouldbe post 14 marked no later than September 7th if if youwant to be 15 careful, I would recommend that you do it sooner than 16 September 7, 2012, because one never knows what comes 17 up on a dailybasis. And, you don't want to be waiting 18 until the lastminute, and then finding that you can't 19 get it done in time. The reason I say, you don't want 20 to be waiting until the lastminute, because Ms. George 21 has already filed a Motion to Deem Request for 22 Admissions granted, and a Motion to Compel Responses. 23 She has got all of her work done already, and you have 24 all of yours yet to do. Now, do you have in front of 25 you the FAA's Motion or Request for Production, do you

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### 1 have that in front of you? 2 MR. FOSTER: 

### Yes, I do, Your Honor. 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay. You need to read that 4 very carefully. The request for production identify 5 each question and eachmaterial piece of evidence that 6 Ms. George wants you to respond to, and you have to 7 respond to that, or give a good explanation as to why 8 you can't. In the interrogatories, you have to respond 9 to those questions, and you have to be specific. This 10 takes time, and I know you say you don't have a lot of 11 time; you need to find the time, or find someone to 12 help you because, when you don't answer these 13 questions, Ms. George can ask me, as she has already 14 done in herMotion, to find that you have admitted all 15 of this to your detriment. And, I am actually quite a 16 stickler for the rules. I think they are there for a 17 good reason, and so when people fail to respond, if 18 they find other things that are more important in their 19 life, that is fine. That is a choice you make, then 20 that means that the work that Ms. George does, should 21 also be granted some relief. Now, take a look at Page 22 3 of the FAA's Request for Discovery, and there you see 23 Requests for Admission, and Ms. George has identified 24 19 different questions that she wants you to admit or 25 deny. You need to respond to those, because if you

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### 1 August 8, 2012 that you want to talk to somebody that 2 is on her witness list, then between August 8, 2012 and 3 September 7, 2012 is when you set up those telephone 4 conferences, and talk to those people. Does that make 5 sense? 6 MR. FOSTER: 

### Yes, it does. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, and then you are also 8 under the gun, essentially, to provide all of your 9 written responses to Ms. George's discovery requests on 10 orbefore September 7, 2012. 11 Now, let's talk about the Motion to Compel, 12 and the Motion to Deem Allegations Admitted. I am 13 going to take a look, Ms. George, at your Motion to 14 Deem Allegations Admitted. I think I may issue a 15 separate directive on that. Given the fact that there 16 are some undisputed facts right now that the parties 17 have agreed to, I am going to see if I can narrow that 18 down, and determine if, in fact, anything more needs to 19 be addressed on that. In terms of the Motion to 20 Compel, if after September 7, 2012, Mr. Foster has 21 failed to respond to the request for production, I 

### 22 already have your Motion to Compel, and I would simply 23 ask you, Ms. George, to notifyme, and I 

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1 MS. GEORGE: Okay. 2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: On orbefore September 12, 3 that you are renewing your Motion to Compel, with 4 simply a statement that you haven't gotten A, B and C. 5 So, it couldbe a very, very, very shortMotion. You 6 don't have to repeat or refile what you have already 7 filed, just simply a supplement to it, asking the Court 8 to trigger that. Does that make sense? 9 MS. GEORGE: Yes, Your Honor. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, would September 14, 11 2012 be enough time? 12 MS. GEORGE: Yes. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, so noted. Mr. Foster, 14 if there is a Motion to Renew the Motion to Compel that 15 is filed by the FAA on or before September 14, 2012, I 16 am going to give you an opportunity to respond in 17 writing to that on or before September 28, and I am 18 going to put all of these dates in writing and send 19 them out to both of you. But, essentially, if you fail 20 to respond to those discovery requests, you are going 21 to see Ms. George saying well, since he didn't respond, 22 I want the relief that I asked for, which is in part, 23 that you find that these violations occurred, and then 24 because she is making that Motion, then you have a 25 right to respond, and I am going to give you until

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### 17 MS. GEORGE: Yes, Your Honor, right now my 18 schedule is open. 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Mr. Foster, how about 20 you? 21 MR. FOSTER: October 21st. 22 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, that is a Sunday, and 23 much as I like to work, I generally take Sunday's off. 24 MR. FOSTER: Okay, I am sorry, what was the 25 date, Your Honor?

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1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: This is the week of October 2 21st, 2012, so let's look for example, on Monday, 3 Tuesday orWednesday of that week, which wouldbe 4 October 22nd, 2012, October 23rd, 2012, or October 5 24th, 2012; do you have time during those three days 6 for a one-hour conference? 7 MR. FOSTER: 22nd and 23rdwouldbe fine. As 8 I have saidbefore, Wednesday's are flying days for me. 9 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, do you have a 10 preference in terms of morning or afternoon? 11 MR. FOSTER: It doesn't matter to me. 12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Ms. George, do you have a 13 preference? 14 MS. GEORGE: Morning, Your Honor. 15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, why don't we say 10 16 o'clock on October 23rd, 2012. 17 MS. GEORGE: Your Honor, on the Tuesday's of 18 each week we have a scheduledmeeting at 10 a.m., is it 19 possible to do it at 10:30? 20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Sure. 21 MS. GEORGE: Okay. 22 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on 23 October 23rd, 2012, we will have either Oral Argument 24 on a Renewed Motion to Compel, or a Prehearing Status 25 conference to see how things are going with everybody.

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### 6 additional time to serve the document. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I have here, I am going to 8 quote it to you, it is 14CFR Section 13.211 Subsection 9 D, Date of Service, "The date of service shall be the 10 date of personal delivery or if mailed, mail in date 11 shown on the Certificate of Service, the date shown on 12 the postmark if there is no certificate of service." 13 So, essentially, you are asserting to me that the 14 postmark date is in and of itself proof that the 15 response was late. 

### 16 MS. GEORGE: Yes, You're Honor. 17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Mr. Foster, let's talk to 18 you next. There was an order issued on June 11, 2012 19 that directed you to file a response no later than July 20 9, 2012, and according to Ms. George you filed it late. 21 She is asking the Court to toss out your Opposition 22 statement because it was filed four days late. Do you 23 have any response to that Motion? 24 MR. FOSTER: Your Honor, only that it was it 25 was given to the one of my office girls on the 9th to

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### That is correct, Your Honor. 2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### In the future, sir, letme 3 emphasize to you that the deadlines that are given to 4 you are bright line deadlines, so you want to not only 5 try andmeet the deadline, you want to try andmeet it 6 early to avoid these kinds of problems. The law is a 7 very traditional practice, and it has lots of rules and 8 regulations that can seem overwhelming, but the one 9 thing that you do have control over, and that you have 10 absolute ability to control is when you respond. So, 11 if you see a deadline that says, "July 9, 2012," I 12 would respond early, if I were you, and then you will 13 know that you have always made your deadlines andmade 14 them correctly. If you have problems with the U.S. 15 mail as you have asserted, then you shouldback up your 16 filing with fax service. You know Ms. George's fax 17 number, you know this Court's fax number, faxes are 18 typically instantaneous, amazingly enough, we have that 19 kind of technology today. If your fax breaks down as 20 you have mentioned earlier today, you were having 21 difficultywith your fax machine, then there are other 22 ways to address mail as well. I am not quite sure of 23 all of the services on your island, but typically 24 people have FedEx opportunities, theyhave all kinds of 25 different ways of getting things out and on time. So,

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### 1 be filed with the Office of Hearings, that is a filing 2 date, and I am talking about that it shouldbe on my 3 desk. Filing with the Court. Does thatmake sense? 4 MR. FOSTER: 

### From down here, the only way I 5 can do that wouldbe fax. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Well, then I would recommend 7 that you both servebymail and also serve by fax. So, 8 that you can assure yourself that you are meeting those 9 deadlines, and that way you will avoid all of these 10 kinds of motions that say Mr. Foster has failed to ring 11 the bell on time don't let himback in the room 12 essentially, I mean that is a very simplifiedway of 13 saying that is what these motions are. And, in terms 14 of your Certificate of Service, Ms. George brought up a 15 very important point that your Certificate of Service 16 is a little deficit. You basically took a Certificate 17 of Service that I utilized and you didn't change it at 18 all, you just attached it to your document. Do you 19 remember doing that? 20 MR. FOSTER: 

### That is correct. 21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, that actually doesn't 22 work quite perfectly, because when I serve the parties, 23 I have a service date stamped on the first page ofmy 24 Order, andbasically, my office staff serves those. 25 And, because I am the Court, because I am the Judge, I

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### 1 now about the importance of these filing dates, and 2 absent any good cause shown in the future, I will hold 3 him to these filing dates. 4 Let's talk then about a time for Dispositive 5 Motion. I am going to basicallyconsider the Motion 6 for a Hearing on Sanction only, and issue a Ruling on 7 that it appears tome there has been some affirmative 8 statements about that at this point. I do, however, 9 think it is very important for us to address the legal 10 arguments, and so since we already have a Motion 11 conference date set up for October 23rd, 2012, I am 12 going to simply note that that is going to be not only 13 used for Potential Renewed Arguments regarding a Motion 14 to Compel, but also I am going to ask the parties if 15 the matter hasn't been resolvedby then, to have some 16 argument regarding the legal issue. Thatmeans, Mr. 17 Foster, you have some time to develop your argument on 18 the law that you say it supports your affirmative 19 defense that you are exempt from the hazardous material 20 regulation. And, I want you to file your written 21 response to the FAA's motionprior to October 23rd 22 2012. And, I would like you to do that on orbefore 23 October 12, 2012. So, if you do your research and you 24 find some case law or decisions by this Agency, Judges, 25 or decisions by an FAA Administrator or by anybody else

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### 1 that supports your interpretation of the Regulations, 2 then you file your responsive materials on orbefore 3 October 12, 2012 about that. And, then I will hear 4 oral argument about it on October 23rd 2012. Does that 5 make sense? 6 MR. FOSTER: 

### Yes, it does, Your Honor. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay. And, then let's talk 8 about a final witness exchange list, and then the 9 Hearing Date. 1

### We have Motion on October 12 I 

### am sorry, 10 I am hearing on that Argument on October 23rd 2012. 11 Are we looking at potentially having a Hearing in 12 November, December or January, and I am going to turn 13 to you first, Ms. George. We are talking about three 14 days. 15 MS. GEORGE: 

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### did want the Court to take notice 17 of is that Hurricane Season usually is at the end of 18 the calendar year, and that might pose some 19 difficulties for us with unknown weather disturbances, 20 that we might want to be conscious of in setting the 21 date. 22 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

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### I have would be the week of Christmas, 10 which doesn't work. So, how about how about the week 11 of January 7th; Ms. George, starting with you? 12 MS. GEORGE: Just give me one second, Your 13 Honor, I am looking for the January calendar. 14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 15 MS. GEORGE: I don't believe there is a 16 conflict, Your Honor, and I am going to say that there 17 isn't, because I cannot locate the 2013 calendar right 18 now. 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Do you need a minute, would 20 that help? 21 MS. GEORGE: I am actually wondering if we 22 have received the 2013 calendar, so let's just go on 23 and set that, and that should be fine. I don't have 24 anything on the calendar I know that is set for 25 hearings, so that wouldbe fine.

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1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Mr. Foster, how about you, 2 is the week of January 7th good? 3 MR. FOSTER: Your Honor, that is after the 4 Christmas holidays, I we are verybusy up until about 5 the middle of the month. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: When you say that, does that 7 mean that is not a good week for you? 8 MR. FOSTER: Not a good week, no, after the 9 15th it slows down. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, how about the week of 11 January I have got to make sure I have got this how 12 about the week of January 28th through February 1; Ms. 13 George? 14 MS. GEORGE: That wouldbe fine, Your Honor. 15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And Mr. Foster, how about 16 you? 17 MR. FOSTER: That wouldbe fine, Your Honor. 18 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, then we will plan on 19 having the hearing on Tuesday, January 29th, Wednesday, 20 January 30th, and Thursday, January 31, and then 21 January 28th, and February 1 will be travel days for 22 anybody coming in and out. Mr. Foster, in terms of 23 airplanes coming in and out of the Virgin Islands, I 24 know that you have the Coastal Air Transport, are there 25 other airlines that come in and out of the Virgin

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### We have American, Jet Blue. 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, so 4 MR. FOSTER: 

### Delta is currently coming in, 5 but they are talking about pulling out by the end of 6 the year. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, and then in terms of 8 court facilities, do you have any kind of Federal Court 9 facilities on the Virgin Islands? Do you have a Tax 10 Court, a Bankruptcy Court, a District Court, any of 11 those things? 12 MR. FOSTER: 

### We have our Superior Court, 13 which I believe is the Federal Court, andwe have the 14 local court. 15 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Okay, thank you. That is 16 enough for me. I will put my staff on getting a court 17 room. Okay, with that, letme ask you, Ms. George 18 well, letme suggest this folks, if there any other 19 kinds of problems with discoverybased on the deadlines 20 I give you, if you needthe Court's assistance in any 21 way, shape or form, I want you to file yourMotion 22 within ten days of finding out the problem so that we 23 can keep on track. And, I will put this in the 24 Litigation order that I am going to be sending out to 25 you. In

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### 7 Exhibits to the Hearing andhow to identify them. We 8 can also go through that on in the October telephone 9 conference. I have not put down any particular date 10 yet for an exchange of Witness lists, and Exhibits, and 11 I need to do that now. So, Ms. George, let me ask you 12 this, in terms of Witness identification andExchange 13 of Exhibits, what date do you think wouldbe workable 14 prior to the currently set Hearing time? 15 MS. GEORGE: Your Honor, I would actually say 16 at the beginning of December. 17 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, and do you have a 18 specific date in mind? 19 MS. GEORGE: The week of December the 3rd. 20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay, Mr. Foster, is that 21 acceptable to you? 22 

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### Okay, then I will look 4 forward to seeing you all in January, assuming that the 5 case goes to trial. I will also look forward to 6 talking with you all at the conference currently set on 7 October 23rd 2012 at 10:30 Eastern Time; and, getting 8 any and all other materials from you, if needed, prior 9 to that particular conference. 10 Folks, and Mr. Foster, I say this to 11 everybody, and so I am just saying that to you ahead of 12 time, Good luck with your negotiations, of course, 13 during this proceeding even though you are preparing 14 for the Hearing, you still have every every ability to 15 continue to talk about settlement if that is what you 16 so choose. 17 With that, I thank you bothverymuch for 18 your time and attention. It appears our business is 19 complete. I will be sending out two different Orders 20 addressing all of the matters that we have coveredhere 21 today, and you should get those within the next few 22 days. With that, we can go off the record, and I wish 23 you both a good day. Thank you so much. 24 MS. GEORGE: 

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