UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 OFFICE OF HEARINGS

IN THE MATTER OF:

DGD, INCORPORATED FDMS. NO. FAA-2014-0684

RESPONDENT

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 TELECONFERENCE HEARING

 BEFORE THE HONORABLE J.E. SULLIVAN

 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015

 1:30 P.M.

 HISTORIC JORDAN SPRINGS

 1160 JORDAN SPRINGS ROAD

 STEPHENSON, VIRGINIA 22656
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1 APPEARANCES

2 ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER,

3 THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION:

4 RASHAWN GEORGE, ESQUIRE

5 OFFICE OF REGIONAL COUNSEL, ASO-7, SOUTHERN REGION

6 1701 COLUMBIA AVENUE

7 COLLEGE PARK, GEORGIA 30337

8 TELEPHONE: 404.305.5200

9 FACSIMILE: 404.305.5223

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13 ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT,

14 DGD, INCORPORATED:

15 LUIS D. LOPEZ, PRESIDENT

16 PRO SE

17 DGD, INCORPORATED

18 1325 NORTHWEST 78TH AVENUE, SUITE 104

19 DORAL, FLORIDA 33126

20 TELEPHONE: 888.219.4544

21 FACSIMILE: 786.999.8893

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1 TELECONFERENCE HEARING

2 BEFORE J.E. SULLIVAN

3 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015

4 1:30 P.M.

5 THE COURT: We are on the record in the

6 matter of DGD, Inc. this is Docket Number FAA-2014-

7 0684. Today is Wednesday, March 18, 2015, and the

8 parties have appeared for a second Rule 16 Litigation

9 Scheduling Conference. The FAA is represented by it's

10 attorney Ms. Rashawn George. Respondent DGD, Inc. is

11 represented by it's pro se President Mr. Luis D.

12 Lopez.

13 Ms. George I didn't ask you before we

14 went on the record, is there anyone else appearing

15 with you on your end?

16 MS. GEORGE: No, Your Honor.

17 THE COURT: Okay. And Mr. Lopez is

18 anyone with you in your car right now?

19 MR. LOPEZ: No.

20 THE COURT: Just so that we can recap,

21 we last convened on January 27, 2015 by telephone. At

22 that time the FAA was still waiting for some

23 additional documents and the parties wanted some

24 additional time to discuss settlement. Ms. George I

25 wanted to just check in with you, has there been any
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1 resolution of any of the disputed issues in this case

2 so far?

3 MS. GEORGE: No, Your Honor we did not

4 receive any documents from the respondent.

5 THE COURT: So does that mean there's

6 no resolution of any of the disputed issues?

7 MS. GEORGE: Correct.

8 THE COURT: Alright then, let's talk a

9 little bit about what issues are in dispute. Typically

10 in these kinds of cases after a complaint is filed a

11 litigant, who requests a hearing files an answer to

12 the complaint, and Mr. Lopez I do not see an answer

13 from you in this file. Have you ...

14 MR. LOPEZ: I'm, I'm working on that

15 and I am also working still because the problem we

16 currently have with the accounting aspect of it is

17 that our Hazmat business is about 3 percent of our

18 actual business services. We are mainly a trucking

19 company. And we have an accountant and auditor that is

20 separating three years of Hazmat services with actual

21 profit and loss for the purposes of Ms. George to get

22 numbers and to look at what our actual profit and loss

23 and bound sheet is. Unfortunately, we lost about a

24 month and a half of time due to the beginning of the

25 year being tax season. And the electronic bookkeeping
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1 the company that is providing us the service, has been

2 working diligently on getting numbers accurate for the

3 last three years.

4 THE COURT: Well, lets talk a little

5 bit more about what an answer is and also what issues

6 are in dispute, because that might help us decide what

7 we're going to do from here on out. As I read the

8 complaint it looks like there are three violations

9 cited by the FAA alleging Hazmat shipping violations.

10 Ms. George is that true?

11 MS. GEORGE: Yes, Your Honor.

12 THE COURT: And there is also a

13 proposed fine for those three violations of a total,

14 totaling $50,000. Ms. George is that also accurate?

15 Ms. GEORGE: I am showing the complaint provided,

16 I apologize ...

17 THE COURT: And can you speak up Ma'am.

18 I can't hear you very well.

19 MS. GEORGE: I apologize Your Honor I

20 had moved away from the speaker phone. Our complaint

21 we alleged that there were, yes a $50,000 proposed for

22 the penalty for the violations cited within it.

23 THE COURT: And there are three

24 violations that I see in the complaint and that would

25 be on page three of the complaint. Are you counting
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1 the violations identified in sub section 3 paragraph

2 15 b as in boy as one violation or as two?

3 MS. GEORGE: One moment Your Honor, I

4 am sorry. Counting it as two violations.

5 THE COURT: So the two regulations

6 cited in paragraph 3.15b are counted as one of two

7 violations. Is that correct?

8 MS GEORGE: Correct, Your Honor.

9 THE COURT: So, are you essentially

10 asserting that each of the two violations you're

11 accusing the respondent of committing should be

12 assessed a penalty of $25,000 totaling $50,000, or are

13 you breaking the $50,000 out in a different way?

14 MS. GEORGE: We are alleging that there

15 are two violations of the requirement to have shipping

16 papers as you have stated at $25,000 each.

17 THE COURT: So, Mr. Lopez let's turn to

18 you. Oh, I'm sorry Ms. George I have one other

19 question, is this a particular violation that you

20 consider to be a training violation, or is it simply a

21 violation of a shipping regulation? Because the way

22 the respondent's Request for Hearing read it was

23 unclear to me what he thought and what had been

24 communicated to him?

25 MS. GEORGE: No this is not a training
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1 violation this is a, we have it categorized under our

2 smoking matrix as an intentional violation of the

3 requirement to have shipping papers accompany

4 hazardous material shipment.

5 THE COURT: Okay.

6 MS. GEORGE: I mean it is a shipping

7 violation.

8 THE COURT: Thank you for that

9 clarification.

10 THE COURT: Now, Mr. Lopez, lets talk a

11 little bit about your side of the case. On September

12 3rd, 2014, you filed a Request for Hearing and in your

13 Request for Hearing which is dated August 30, 2014 it

14 appears to me, and I may be wrong, that you agreed

15 that the violations had occurred.

16 MR. LOPEZ: That's the problem you

17 know, we're not, go ahead ...

18 THE COURT: Tell me what it is that you

19 intend to litigate in this case?

20 MR. LOPEZ: This is the problem, we're

21 not the shipper on record, we're not the shipping

22 forwarder on record, we are simply a Hazmat compliance

23 company. And my dispute with the FAA that for the

24 past 3 years has been that the issue occurred at

25 Oregon where they manufacture paper work. The only
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1 thing that we did improperly, and when I say we

2 meaning I mean an employee of mine that was working

3 for me, was that he didn't check documentation and

4 then went ahead maliciously or unintentionally, or

5 whatever, produced a document based on our company

6 once the shipment got rejected. But we never offered

7 the shipment at air freight, cause we are not a

8 shipper. And my dispute with the FAA has been why are

9 you guys going after us and not the shipper of record.

10 We get paid $15 to just make sure that the shipment is

11 air worthy, the box is ok, you know. So for us and

12 that is the dispute that I have with Ms. George, why I

13 don't understand how we're the ones being requested to

14 pay a fine that we didn't even produce the document.

15 The document was produced originally incorrectly in

16 the middle of the United States, domestically trucked

17 for Florida, where our customer, Coordenado the

18 freight forwarder, was going to ship it out of the

19 country.

20 THE COURT: Okay.

21 MS GEORGE: May I respond to that Your

22 Honor?

23 THE COURT: No not, not right now thank

24 you.

25 THE COURT: Mr. Lopez thank you now
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1 none of that is included in your request for hearing

2 Mr. Lopez.

3 MR. LOPEZ: Okay

4 THE COURT: And where you put that, in

5 writing, is in your answer. You're suppose to answer

6 the complaint in writing.

7 MR LOPEZ: Okay then I will have to do

8 that ASAP.

9 THE COURT: Yes you will, because

10 you're in jeopardy for not having filed an answer in a

11 timely manner.

12 MR LOPEZ: Understood.

13 THE COURT: And when I say you are in

14 jeopardy, I mean you have two things you have to

15 address at this point. You have to file the answer and

16 you have to explain why you didn't file it in a timely

17 way, before I can go forward.

18 MR. LOPEZ: Okay.

19 THE COURT: And I am going to tell you

20 how much time has lapsed since you were suppose to

21 file the answer. Do you have a copy of the complaint

22 in front of you?

23 MR. LOPEZ: No, I do not.

24 THE COURT: Do you remember our

25 conversation on January, 27 2015, where I told you
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1 that I needed you to be sure and have all of your

2 paperwork with you for all future conferences?

3 MR LOPEZ: I did.

4 THE COURT: I am serious when I say

5 that, because you create disadvantage for yourself,

6 when you're not looking at paperwork that the court is

7 looking at and talking about.

8 MR. LOPEZ: Understood.

9 THE COURT: So, here I go. I am

10 looking at the complaint that the FAA filed and that

11 Ms. George signed on October 6, 2014. On page three

12 of that complaint, at the very bottom of the page it

13 says in bold letters that are underlined, please note,

14 below that it says among other things, you are

15 required to file a written answer to this complaint no

16 later than 30 days after the date shown on the

17 certificate of service. So, certificate of service,

18 which is the next page, has the date of October 6,

19 2014. Under the rules, your answer in writing is due.

20 I am going to do a rough count, is due no later than

21 November 6, 2014. Now, my count may be off a day or

22 so. But that is about the thirtieth day of, if this is

23 mailed to you we can add up to five days. So, lets

24 just assume, for the sake of argument, five extra days

25 would be November 11, 2014. We're way beyond that
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1 time period. So, you have some work to do and you

2 need to do it fairly quickly.

3 MR LOPEZ: I can work on that tomorrow

4 and then mail it to Ms. George and mail it to yourself

5 and it can be in the mail, I mean I have something

6 written together already ...

7 THE COURT: Okay.

8 MR. LOPEZ: It is just a matter of ...

9 THE COURT: Yeah I am going to give you

10 some directions and I hope you have a pen and paper.

11 MR. LOPEZ: I do. I am writing

12 everything you're writing as we speak right now.

13 THE COURT: You will need to file two

14 different things. Number one, an answer to the

15 complaint. The answer should identify and respond to

16 each and every paragraph and numbered paragraph in the

17 complaint. You either agree with it, disagree with it

18 or don't have enough information to say.

19 MR. LOPEZ: Okay.

20 THE COURT: And then number two, you

21 need to file, how do I want to say this, you need to

22 file a request to accept the late complaint and

23 explain in that request why you failed to file it in a

24 timely way. What prevented you or what was the

25 problem or what was circumstance that happened in your
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1 life or that happened to result in you not filing this

2 answer on or before November 11th, 2014. Because I

3 have to make a finding of good cause for your delay.

4 MR. LOPEZ: Okay.

5 THE COURT: And then Ms. George will

6 have an opportunity to respond. She can agree that

7 your reasons for not filing an answer timely are good

8 and she doesn't want to challenge them or she can

9 disagree and say I disagree and I think his request

10 for hearing should be dismissed. If your request for

11 hearing is dismissed it means you've lost the

12 opportunity to challenge either of the alleged

13 violations or the proposed civil penalty. So it's

14 very important to do both of these things and do them

15 well. I am going to give you a deadline for filing

16 both.

17 MR. LOPEZ: Okay.

18 THE COURT: And I am going to give you

19 an opportunity to participate in setting that

20 deadline.

21 MR. LOPEZ: Okay.

22 THE COURT: You're telling me that you

23 have some time tomorrow. I'm happy to give you a

24 little more time than that because I want you to do

25 the work well, to the best of your ability, so that
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1 you feel satisfied that you have put in your best

2 product, if you will. So ...

3 MR. LOPEZ: Yeah, I don't think that

4 with the information you just gave me now that it

5 still needs a little bit of work so it can be as

6 detailed as you're asking me so I mean I think I can

7 have it done within 30 days is more than a sufficient

8 amount of time.

9 THE COURT: Well, your going to need

10 less time than that.

11 MR. LOPEZ: That's fine. How much time

12 would you like to give me?

13 THE COURT: I think you need to file

14 this no later than by the end of the month, which is

15 March 31.

16 MR. LOPEZ: No problem.

17 THE COURT: So, and when you file it I

18 am going to explain to you who you file it with and

19 the copies.

20 MR LOPEZ: Okay.

21 THE COURT: In any of the paperwork

22 that you've seen Ms. George or I submit the very last

23 page is called a service slip and it shows the name,

24 address, phone number and fax number typically of

25 everyone who is suppose to get a copy of the document.
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1 MR. LOPEZ: Mm-hmm. (Indicating

2 Affirmatively)

3 THE COURT: It also shows the name and

4 address of the FAA's hearing docket clerk who keeps

5 the official record. And you mail a copy to them, to

6 her or him excuse me. So the original and one copy

7 goes to the hearing docket clerk and then a copy is

8 sent to Ms. George and a copy is sent to me. And I

9 recommend that you also fax a copy to me and if Ms.

10 George is interested in getting a faxed copy, to her

11 as well. That way you make sure that you meet your

12 deadline that I'm giving you, because the deadline I

13 give you, is the date it's suppose to be in my hand.

14 MR. LOPEZ: Understood.

15 THE COURT: Okay.

16 MR. LOPEZ: Ms. George can I get your

17 fax number?

18 THE COURT: Yes and my fax number is on

19 every single service list that I have sent, of

20 documents that I have sent you, but the fax number is

21 202-366-7536. Ms. George I'm going to turn to you, do

22 you want to have any documents faxed to you as well as

23 mailed or do you care?

24 MS. GEORGE: Yes, Your Honor we would

25 like a fax as well.
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1 THE COURT: Okay.

2 MS. GEORGE: Our fax number here as it

3 appears on the service list is 404-305-5223.

4 THE COURT: Thank you. Mr. Lopez when

5 you file documents you should always file them with a

6 service list attached to the very back of the

7 document. That's your certification to everybody

8 involved that you have dotted all your I's and crossed

9 all your T's and sent everybody who deserves to get a

10 copy, a copy of your document. Does that makes sense

11 so far?

12 MR. LOPEZ: It does.

13 THE COURT: Okay.

14 MR. LOPEZ: I am just going to

15 basically follow the same procedure the FFA did on

16 their, on their documents and just respond to every,

17 do respond with an answer to every statement that was

18 given.

19 THE COURT: Every allegation in the

20 complaint must have an answer.

21 MR. LOPEZ: Understood.

22 THE COURT: If you don't answer every

23 allegation it's presumed that you agree with it. So,

24 for example, I'm just going to give an example.

25 Paragraph one of the complaint and the one is a
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1 numeral, a roman numeral one, says and I am going to

2 quote "On August 27, 2014, respondent DGD, Inc. was

3 advised, through a final notice of proposed civil

4 penalty, that the FAA proposed to access civil penalty

5 in the amount of $50,000 period. On October 3rd, 2014,

6 the agency attorney received a written request for a

7 hearing from the respondent, period. It appears the

8 office of hearing received the appeal from the

9 respondent DGD, Inc. on or about September 3rd, 2014

10 period," end of quote. So, in your answer you want to

11 identify that you are answering roman numeral

12 paragraph one, and then number one. You can agree or

13 disagree with the paragraph as it is written or you

14 can agree with sentence one but not agree with

15 sentence number two, or you can say I agree with

16 sentence number one, I disagree agree with sentence

17 number two, I don't know about what happened in

18 sentence number three. I mean, you can do any number

19 of things but you have to address each and every

20 allegation and every numbered section of the

21 complaint. Does that make sense?

22 MR. LOPEZ: Yes, it does.

23 THE COURT: And that needs to filed

24 with this office on or before March 31, 2015.

25 MR. LOPEZ: Understood.
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1 THE COURT: Ms. George, lets talk about

2 your answer, there's going to be an answer and then a

3 request by Mr. Lopez to accept the late answer. And

4 typically, I think you have 10 days to respond to any

5 such motion. Is that correct?

6 MS. GEORGE: I believe you're correct,

7 Your Honor.

8 THE COURT: Looking at your calendar,

9 do you need anything more than 10 days beyond March

10 31, 2015?

11 MS. GEORGE: Actually, if I could have

12 until April the 13th, 2015, which is the Monday after

13 I am scheduled to be on leave, the week of April the

14 6th.

15 THE COURT: Okay. Mr. Lopez do you

16 have any objection to that? That basically ...

17 MR. LOPEZ: No.

18 THE COURT: Then we'll have the FAA

19 response due on or before April 13, 2015 and then I

20 will need to make a ruling. Oh, I'm sorry, I do need

21 to give you a reply date Mr. Lopez. When you are

22 making a motion to the court you're basically asking

23 for relief of some kind. And when you're the moving

24 party in a motion the court can give you an

25 opportunity for final reply, or the last bite of the
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1 apple. So, I am going to give a reply date of April

2 27, which is two weeks after Ms. George's response is

3 due. And in a reply, basically what you do is you

4 take a look at what the FFA has said and its response

5 to your motion. And then if you have anything you

6 would like to say about their response to clarify, to

7 disagree with, to explain, you do that in your reply.

8 And then once ...

9 MR. LEWIS: Okay.

10 THE COURT: ... if you don't want to

11 file, a reply, that's fine. You just fax a notice, to

12 all of us, and say I'm not going to file a reply. So,

13 that if you don't file one, then I can look at the

14 material, I can make a ruling on it sooner. If you do

15 file a reply, that's great, but it will be due on or

16 before April 27, 2015. And then after that I'll issue

17 a ruling, and if I decide to grant your request, I

18 will reset the Rule 16 Litigation Scheduling

19 Conference. I can also, in the alternative, set it

20 out a little ways. But, my, in these kinds of

21 situations, I think it's best just to wait, unless the

22 parties feel strongly one way or the other. Ms.

23 George what is your position?

24 MS. GEORGE: I am fine with waiting

25 Your Honor.
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1 THE COURT: Mr Lopez, How about you?

2 MR. LOPEZ: I have no problem waiting.

3 THE COURT: While you're waiting, that

4 doesn't prevent you from continuing to provide

5 documentation to each other. It doesn't prevent you

6 from talking about the case, if you so choose. So,

7 and I will, of course, try to get a ruling out to your

8 as soon as I can, after April 27, 2015. If you have

9 any questions in the interim, you can always call the

10 attorney who works with me. I think you both talked

11 to him a little earlier today, when this call was

12 being setup. His name is Mr. Cody Smith. He can

13 answer general questions about procedure. He can't

14 help people with their case arguments but he can

15 always tell you deadlines and due dates and how the

16 court operates in general. I will be sending out an

17 order today, basically outlining what these deadlines

18 are and what's due for each deadline. And then that

19 order will also have attached to it a service list,

20 Mr. Lopez, so that you can see a service list sample.

21 Before we close, Ms. George, is there anything you

22 would like to discuss or clarify or talk about in

23 addition to this?

24 MS GEORGE: No, Your Honor.

25 THE COURT: Mr Lopez, on behalf of your
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1 business, is there anything you would like to talk

2 about or ask questions about before we close?

3 MR LOPEZ: Well no, I mean, our

4 ultimate goal is to do litigation directly with the

5 FAA. But I don't have any way of doing that until I

6 depend on the accounting department, that we hired, to

7 get us numbers. And our numbers are not realistic.

8 So, our goal is to get those numbers as accurately as

9 possible, so that we can then deal directly with FAA.

10 THE COURT: Well, you're welcome to

11 continue getting that information, but what I'm trying

12 to tell you, and I can't emphasize this enough, is

13 that if you do not file these documents that we've

14 talked about, your case will be tossed out.

15 MR. LOPEZ: Well, no, I mean,

16 ultimately, the first thing that we are going to make

17 an urgent matter to resolve before March 31st is the

18 answer. So that's going to happen for sure.

19 Everybody will get that before March 31st.

20 THE COURT: Well, your answer and your

21 motion for acceptance of the late answer.

22 MR. LOPEZ: Right.

23 THE COURT: Yeah.

24 MR LOPEZ: Correct.

25 THE COURT: Because, in your motion for
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1 acceptance of the late answer, you are going to

2 explain, as best you can, why you did not file a

3 timely answer. Because the rules in this forum say

4 that if you do not file a timely answer, I can't go

5 forward and give you a hearing, unless there is a good

6 reason for that untimely answer.

7 MR LOPEZ: Understood.

8 THE COURT: Yeah, so, you have the

9 burden of proof to say why you didn't file an answer

10 on or before November 11, 2014, what it was that

11 prevented you, or what circumstances were that caused

12 you not to file an answer sooner. And then, we're

13 going to be talking about that and I have to make a

14 ruling on that first. So, that's absolutely critical

15 for you to get in on or before March 31, 2015.

16 MR. LOPEZ: Understood.

17 THE COURT: Very Good. Anything else

18 that I can address for you and your client DGD, Inc.

19 today, before we close, Mr. Lopez?

20 MR. LOPEZ: No, Ma'am

21 THE COURT: Then I am going to thank

22 you both very much for your time today. It appears

23 our business is complete. I'll send out an order, if

24 not this afternoon, by tomorrow morning by the latest.

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1 the materials that you're going to file in writing.

2 With that we can go Off The Record and I wish you all

3 a good day. Thank you.

4 MR. LOPEZ: Thank you, you too.

5 THE COURT: Bye, Bye.

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