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### E. SULLIVAN 4 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 5 800 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, S.W. 6 WASHINGTON, DC 20590 7 ATTENTION: HEARING DOCKET CLERK, AGC-430 8 WILBUR WRIGHT BUILDING, SUITE 2W1000 9 

### 10 ON BEHALF OF THE COMPLAINTANT: 11 MARK G. CAMACHO, ESQUIRE 12 OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, 13 CENTRAL REGION, ACE-7 14 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 15 901 LOCUST, ROOM 506 16 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 64106 17 PHONE: 816.329.3765 18 19 ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT: 20 QUENTON T. BROWN, Pro Se' 21 622 W. MILLER STREET 22 ORLANDO, FL 32805 23 PHONE: 321.594.8501 24 251 2 IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#l6818-l 3 TELECONFERENCE HEARING May 3, 2012 

### 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### We're on the record in 4 the matter of Quenton T. Brown. This is Docket Number 5 FAA-2011-1009. Today is Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 and 6 the parties have convened for a telephone conference on 7 the FAA's Amended Motion for Default Judgment. Marc G. 8 Camacho, the Respondent's

...I'm sorry, the FAA's 9 Attorney is present by telephone. The Pro Se' 10 Respondent, Quenton T. Brown, is not present and there 11 is no explanation for his absence. Prior to going on 12 the record this morning, Diane Maze, with the Office of 13 Hearing, convened his telephone call and advised us all 14 that she had just tried to contact Mr. Brown at his 15 phone number of record which is 321-594-8501. Mr. 16 Brown's voicemail came on when she contacted that 17 number. The voicemail identified Mr. Brown by name. 18 No one answered the phone. As a result, Ms. Mays left 19 a detailed message for Mr. Brown advising him that the 20 telephone conference was convening, and giving him the 21 Office of Hearing's phone number to contact if he 22 wanted to participate. 23 I'll also note that the court records 24 shows that Mr. Brown was sent, by U.S. mail, an Order 25 setting telephone conference on April 19, 2012. ThisIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 4 1 Order and Notice to Mr. Brown; and all parties, was 2 mailed by U.S. mail on April 19, 2012. Mr. Brown was 3 sent this Order both to his Orlando, Florida address, 4 as well as, his Melbourne, Florida address. Neither 5 mailing have been returned. 6 Mr. Camacho, based on the Court Summary 7 of the information that Ms. Mays gave us, do you have 8 anything you would like to correct, disagree with or 9 clarify? 10 MR. CAMACHO: No. I cannot make any 11 comments, cause I'm not privy to those particular 12 actions but

...I.

..but I'm

...familiar with it

...again

... 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I understand, but you 14 have a right to
...to correct the Court Summary of what 15 you heard when

... 16 MR. CAMACHO: I don't care to do that 17 Judge. I

...I

...I concur with your summary based on 18 what I hear. 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. I'm not asking 20 you to concur with the veracity, just whether or not I 21 have stated, to the best of your knowledge, a...a 22 correct summary of what she told us. 23 MR. CAMACHO: Yes. I do concur with 24 that. 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Okay, so letsIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 5 

### 1 talk then about the

...the questions the Court had, and 2 in essence, first and foremost, Mr. Brown

...or...Mr. 3 Camacho, I had a question about the actual penalty 4 you're requesting. I've looked through all of your 5 Pleadings, I've read the Statutory Authority that you 6 pled in support of the $11,000 amount. My first 7 question is, do you have any authority to show that 8 $11,000 is the correct maximum amount under the statute 9 that you cited? The reason I ask that is because, I 10 looked at 49USC46301, subsection A5A, both in the 11 materials that you provided, and independently in my 12 own research, and the maximum that's sighted in that 13 statute is $10,000. 14 MR. CAMACHO: 

### Yes. Since the statute 15 went into effect, Your Honor, I didn't provide it to 16 you, and I apologize. We

...this particular statute
...a 17 subsequent statute came out to adjust for Cost of 18 Living adjustment, and that particular adjustment, 19 brought all civil penalties up from the original 20 to
...to $11,000 versus $10,000. And

...and that's

... 21 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### When did that statute 22 come into existence? Cause I went onto Lexus Nexus and 23 I looked at the most current statute they had, and it 24 showed

... 25 MR. CAMACHO: 

### Yes Judge.1 2 IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And it showed $10,000. MR. CAMACHO: It's $11,000 Judge but 3 I

...that's a good question and let me get that 4 information. In 2010, there was a Civil Penalty 5 Infla

...Inflation Adjustment our office was provided. 6 Let me think. This is a copy that I have, Federal 7 Register 2010 revision to the Civil Penalty 8 Infla

...Inflation Adjustment Tables. It came out in 9 the Federal Register and adjustments shown. 10 (WHEREUPON, Counsel is examining the document.) 11 MR. CAMACHO: I'm looking now as you and 12 I are talking. 49USC, 46301, providing false 13 information. Interference with Kevin crewmembers 14 27,500 adjusted. No, that's a different one. All 15 right, 49USC,·46301A5, violation by an individual or 16 small business concern. 7,000 for violation, 546301A5B 17 violation by an individual

... 18 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Mr. Camacho? MR. CAMACHO: $11,000 per violation. 20 This is what I'm using. Oh, here it is. I apologize, 21 Your Honor. This is an adjustment specifically that 22 identifies what we're talking about and it's 11,000 per 23 violation adjusted 6-15-2006, maximum civil penalty. 24 So, I

...this was provided as guidance to our office 25 from our Chief Counsel's office in Washington, D.C. 

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### 1 But that's

... 2 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### Yes, I'm going to stop 3 you. I currently have a Lexus Nexus citation from 4 April 16, 2012 for the statutory citation of under 5 which this person is being held liable and, I don't 6 have anything in this that says $11,000. So

...I

... 7 MR. CAMACHO: 

### I understand. I

...I

...all 8 I can tell you Judge is this, this is final rule that 9 was issued. I can certainly provide you this number. 10 It was Monday, November 29, 2010, it went into the 11 Federal Register, it is a final rule, which is an 12 adjustment to the Civil Penalty Inflation Tables. 13 Adjustment for Civil

...Adjustment for Inflation. And, 14 it breaks down the various Civil Penalties according to 15 statute. Sets it out on the table and identifies the 16 reasoning behind it. It specifically identifies an 17 amendment to Part 13 of our regulations and monetary 18 penalties have been adjusted upwards, and it gives out 19 the table, and in it, on the left-hand side, identified 20 under the title, United States Code Citation is, 49USC, 21 46301A5A, violation by an individual or small business, 22 et cetera, et cetera. Maximum penalty now $11,000 per 23 violation adjusted, originally 6-15-2006 so, 24 that's

...that is what we've used and we've used that 25 historically since this came out. This 201D adjustmentIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 8 1 basically said that the previous adjustment made in 2 2006 to 11,000 had not been changed. 3 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 4 MR. CAMACHO: 

### We go back to 2006, this 5 is the guidance I use. 6 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. What

... 7 MR. CAMACHO: And

...and all of the 8 attorneys in our office do

...use that guidance. Which 9 is why we use it. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. I am...I'm going 11 to talk now Mr. Camacho and, I want you to listen to 12 what I ask you, cause, I

...it sounds like we're talking 13 over each other. What federal regulation are you 14 referring to at this point? 15 MR. CAMACHO: Yes. 16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: You're

...you're 17 referring me to as having been giving notice to the 18 Court and to Mr. Brown about this. 19 MR. CAMACHO: 14CFR, Part 13. 20 The

...the

...this is the POT regulations that involve in 21 investigative and enforcement procedures. 22 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 23 MR. CAMACHO: Like their team 24 specifically

...more specifically, Section 13.305. 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. I'm going to 

# couIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 9 1 take a look at that. 2 MR. CAMACHO: Yes, ma'am. And our 3 practice, obviously, we cite the core statutory 4 authority and then we provide each of the recipients, 5 each prospective respondent

...or each respondent, a 6 copy of

...we provide them a copy of Part 13 that 7 applies

...that would apply to their

...we send them an 8 extra in

...the

...as an enclosure when we provide the 9 initial notice. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Sure. 11 MR. CAMACHO: We send a number of 12 documents and that's part of our attachments that go 13 with

...cause Laymen don't know and so we give them that 14 as guidance so that they can look at it, and/or take it 15 to their attorneys. 16 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 17 MR. CAMACHO: And I would say, Judge, 18 that with regard to the application of this, to get a 19 better perspective, this is

...this is a...a...a...we 20 receive this memo from Washington, we receive guidance 21 on...on these type of changes immediately from our 22 Chief Counsel's office and, they bring us up-to-speed 23 on this and, so it's applied nationwide. It's not 24 particularly my decision or my office's decision. It's 25 the application of guidance received from our national

## COUR~ . . . 'VfdeogNtphyIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 10 1 office in Washington and it's applied across the board 2 to all of our Chief Counsel. All of a regional counsel 3 offices. 4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I understand. 5 MR. CAMACHO: Okay. In similar manner, 6 I have a matrix that's provided to us that breaks this 7 out, separate and apart, from that particular document 8 which I'm

...what I'm reading to you came from the 9 Federal Register, specifically. But, I also

...we also 10 are provided a matrix, an internal working document 11 that simplifies that in

...in a kind of a working tool 12 situation so we can have it readily available for us. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Thank you. I 14 have up on my screen, the Amendment to 14CFR13.304. 15 Thank you very much. 16 17 MR. CAMACHO: You're welcome. JUDGE SULLIVAN: For showing that. And 18 I can see where you got that amount. 19 MR. CAMACHO: Yes, ma'am. 20 JUDGE SULLIVAN: My question 21 then

...and

...and

...and I have no problem of issuing a 22 Default Judgment today. So, I want to allay any 23 concerns you have about that. My question then comes 24 next, with some of the material that you provided. 25 MR. CAMACHO: Yes.IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 11 1 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Let me just talk a 2 little bit about it with you. More to, in a sense of 3 where you're coming from on behalf of your client. You 4 had indicated that, in some of these materials 5 provided, Attachment Number 7. 6 MR. CAMACHO: Let me look at that real 7 quick. 8 (WHEREUPON, Counsel examined Attachment Number 7.) 9 MR. CAMACHO: Yes. 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. At the bottom of 11 Attachment Number 7, in the table that shows figure B 12 as in Boy, hyphen 3, hyphen P, as in Paul. 13 MR. CAMACHO: Yes. 14 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Probably passengers. 15 You have in Number 1, interference with crew member. 16 Which is the

...the section that essentially Mr. Brown 17 was cited? And that shows maximum, with no particular 18 amount indicated. Directly below that, in paragraph 19 number two, it talks about an actual, physical assault 20 of a flight or crew member, and then it gives the 21 citation. Below that, it talks about physical of 22 assault of an individual, other than a crew member. 23 Below that, in paragraph four, a threat to physically 24 assault, and so forth. And, as you...as you walk 25 yourself down that table, the amount of money for 

# co:uRt: EPOiRTING VfdlfOgNtphg ·Utlgallon1:1chnology 'NIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 12 1 recommended civil penalty decreases. So, for example, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 the maximum amount for actually assaulting someone would be a $8,000 recommended penalty. The maximum amount for assaulting someone other than a crew member, is $5,000, an so forth. So, in your material, you've requested the maximum of $11,000 for Mr. Brown, and

...and I'm

...I

...as I read through the material

... MR. CAMACHO: Shhh. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Provided to me, I found 10 it somewhat inconsistent with the facts, the form. I'm 11 just noting that for you because I

...I saw this

...this 12 recommended penalty came from the field office, 13 and

...and I'm

...I'm a little concerned that the field 14 folks may not be completely aware of what

...what 15 your...you have before you, since the fact in this 16 case, is that Mr. Brown threw a bag of peanuts at one 17 of the flight attendants. And, then of course, was 18 profane and

...and disrespectful towards that crew 19 member, upon confrontation. Obviously, you and I 20 have

...we've discussed before both have criminal 21 litigation backgrounds, and I have no problem finding 22 that throwing a...anything at a crew member is an 23 assault. But, I

...I just want to alert you to the fact 24 that in a case like this, if it went to trial, to see 25 generally an assault, physical assault, where someoneIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 13 1 could punch someone in the face, treated as an $8,000 2 maximum, but a bag of peanuts, rise to the level of 3 $11,000, somewhat inconsistent. Does that

...does that 4 make sense as I'm talking to you about this? 5 MR. CAMACHO: I would

...I 6 would

...on...on the face of it, it

...it

...obviously, 7 my...my response is yes. On the face of it, it makes 8 perfect sense. 9 10 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. MR. CAMACHO: If I can, I'd like to be 11 heard for the record. 12 JUDGE SULLIVAN: No, I will 13 just

...I

...I'm just going to leave that for you. I 14 have no trouble granting your motion for an $11,000 15 default judgment at this point. 16 MR. CAMACHO: I want to point something 17 out to you because I think it's important; if you would 18 allow me the courtesy of doing that. 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I would be happy to 20 once I finish talking. 21 22 MR. CAMACHO: Okay Judge. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. I'm saying I'm 23 happy to grant you an $11,000 default judgment in this 24 case because, you have provided me with the statute 25 that I needed to see, regarding the increased penalty,IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 14 

### 1 and I thank you for that. Number two, you provided 2 full and fair notice to Mr. Brown regarding what he 3 could expect to see if he failed to pursue this 4 litigation. And number three, I 

### think the record is 5 replete with opportunities for Mr. Brown to come and 6 defend himself. Not only against the alleged 7 violation, the facts underlying the alleged violation, 8 but also, against the request for the maximum amount. 9 And you have a right to the maximum amount in this 10 case. So, but your welcome to address the Court 11 comments regarding what I 

### saw as generally inconsistent 12 in materials that you provided to me. 13 MR. CAMACHO: 

### Thank you Judge. There 14 are two different statutes that are actually 15 used

...up...there are two statutes available to the 16 agency that

...that can be used, and it is our policy 17 to, and we have consistently used, 49USC46301, subpart 18 A5largeA as the statutory basis for taking civil 19 penalty action. And

...and that is the one that's 20 referenced through regulations in the first of those, 21 one, two, three, four, five subparts and, the sanction 22 will be

...it's a sanction guidance table. The other 23 one that's available to us, and it's actually titled 24 49, Section 46318

... 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### All right, now I

...IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 15 1 MR. CAMACHO: That once specifically 2 references interference but, we do not use that 3 and

...and I'm not sure why. However, that is the case 4 that we...but it is there, because under that statute, 5 those dollar amounts are there and they're broken out 6 that way. So, we have relied consistently on the other 7 one...the first one. The second

...and with regard to 8 that, if you will see, clearly, I'm not in a position, 9 or anyone similarly positions in

...in my position, is 10 an...is able to authorize, or could ethically just 11 select a number arbitrarily, so, we have to rely 12 heavily on this guidance. When

...in keeping with that, 13 I provided you, if you'll recall, Attachment-3, 4 and 5 14 to show you how the agency in it's internal guidance, 15 gives guidance to the Regional Counsel's office on how 16 to look at where to go with regard to certain 17 violations and, because it's a convoluted process. 18 And

...and in that, you'll

...you can see an attachment 19 for other individuals not serving capacities varmint 20 for violations covered under 49USC, Section 46301A5A, 21 maximum and then the $11,000. That's how those two are 22 linked which is consiBtent with the statutory language 23 that I gave you. However, so...so that is

...and it's a 24 matter of our practice, and so...although that other 25 statute is available, I'm not at an occasion to use it

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### 1 I do not know

...we are not trained to that. I've been 2 trained to this particular statute, in terms of the 3 implementation of it for this particular situation. 4 5 JUDGE SULLIVAN: 

### No, I appreciate

... MR. CAMACHO: 

### And also, I would say 6 that

...and I just wanted

... because you may see this 7 again in your practice. Other attorneys may provide S this to you, particularly, Exhibit, or much 9 specifically, Exhibit-S

...or Attachment-S. The 10 internal processing of civil penalty actions, and all 11 enforcement actions, takes a three step
...three 12 step
...I guess it

...it involves three steps. First, 13 the Field Office provides the facts and the renders 14 that

...it

...it's findings. It then comes to where we 15 are today in Kansas City, the Regional Headquarters 16 Office Building. And, that line of business, at this 17 level, then reviews that

...that file and looks for 1S consistency with regard to our written policy, which is 19 promulgated to the members of the public and then, 20 makes an ess...evaluation and an assessment and they 21 are...that office is responsible for providing the 22 recommendation that you see in Attachment-S, and then 23 it comes to me. Policy wise, legal counsel makes the 24 final determination. We can concur and not concur. I 25 always like to put little concurs...or non-concurrenceIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 17 1 notes on these to
...in the event the truck should hit 2 me tomorrow, someone can come back and look at it and 3 see what my decision was, and, that's what I have here. 4 So, this is a...this is the last hurrah for the line of 5 business. In other words, this is actually 6 accomplished here at the Regional Headquarters by 7 specialists who are trained to do this kind of 8 analysis, if you were, and then they provide these

...I 9 call it

...they call it supporting reasons, but they're 10 analysis. And

...and

...and this is somewhat

...this 11 particular type of evaluation is consistently applied 12 across the board for all the cases for all the 13 attorneys in all the regional offices, for which there 14 are nine, and the two centers at our nation, of which 15 there are two. So, and I just provide that to you 16 that there's a better understanding of that process 17 how

...I use that as an initial analys

...an initial 18 starting point to see whether their evaluation or 19 analysis is accurate, it's on the money or, whether 20 it's skewed. But, I can use my own judgment in the 21 matter and move forward from there, based on my so and

22 understanding of how we have applied policies and the 23 statutes in the past. That's how I derived to that 24 particular dollar amount. 25 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you for that 

# NGIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 18 1 explanation. I'm

...I'm just trying to alert you to the 2 fact that I found this somewhat inconsistent. 3 MR. CAMACHO: Okay. 4 JUDGE SULLIVAN: And I think that you 5 heard me say that. 6 MR. CAMACHO: Yes, I did. Thank you. 7 JUDGE SULLIVAN: I

...I understand what 8 you've said that you're following long-standing policy, 9 that

...that it's applied throughout the nation by your 10 office and other field administrative offices. I'm

...I 11 have no...no doubt that you do that, and that you do 12 that with very best intent. I'm just saying that, for 13 the future, it would seem to me to be somewhat 14 inconsistent to have a policy of a maximum of $8,000 15 for punching somebody, but a maximum of $11,000 for 16 throwing a bag of peanuts. That doesn't make a great 17 deal of sense to me but, on a default judgment motion, 18 you have pled your case well Sir, and you have provided 19 all the facts that I think you needed to
...to justify 20 the $11,000 maximum penalty, and I'm happy to grant it 21 to you. 22 MR. CAMACHO: Thank you Judge. 23 JUDGE SULLIVAN: You're welcome. 24 Is

...and I will be issuing an Order today on that. 25 And, I want to thank you very much for the many times 

# EPORTING :tJtlgatlonTlc:Jhnclogy 1MIN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#16818-1 19 1 that you've appeared by yourself, in this case and 2 assisted The Court so ably. 3 4 MR. CAMACHO: Thank you Judge. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Is there anything else 5 that you would like to add to your record on behalf of 6 your client today before we close? 7 MR. CAMACHO: No

...no, Judge. Off the 8 record, if I could talk to you about a...a...it's 9 something else that relates

...not directly to this 10 case, but more than anything else, I think I'd just 11 like to get an insight from you for future possible 12 cases. If we can, if we could do that off the record. 13 JUDGE SULLIVAN: As long as we're 14 talking hypothetically, on a general basis, I could do 15 that. Are you... 16 MR. CAMACHO: Okay. Yes. I can do 17 that. One of the

...I'm sorry...all right

...all right. 18 Tell me when you're ready. I apologize again. 19 JUDGE SULLIVAN: Mr. Court Reporter, it 20 appears our business is complete. I'm going to thank 21 everybody for their time. We can go off the record at 22 this time. 23 (WHEREUPON, the Hearing of Quenton T. Brown was 2 4 concluded at 10: 2 8 a.m.) 251 2 IN THE MATTER OF QUENTON T. BROWN 05/03/2012 CCR#l6818-1 20 CAPTION

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