UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF HEARINGS

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### ************************************* IN THE MATTER OF PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SKYDIVING CENTER, Respondent 

## * * * * * * ************************************* Judge: Douglas M. Rawald Docket#: FAA-2014-1116 (Civil Penalty Action)
RESPONDENT'S RENEWED MOTION TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF SUBJECTMATTER JURISDICTION AND TO VACATE THE ORDER SETTING DEADLINE FOR POSTHEARING BRIEF COMES NOW, the Respondent, Pacific International Skydiving Center, by and through its undersigned counsel, and because an Order Setting Deadline for Posthearing Brief(Exhibit A) has been issued by the Court, renews its motion to dismiss for lack ofsubject-matterjurisdiction and further moves to vacate the said Order Setting Deadline for Posthearing Brief. As grounds therefor Respondent would show as follows: I. On 27 January 2015, in response to Respondent's written request for a hearing, the Administrator, through counsel, filed its Complaint in this cause. 2. The Complaint alleged four ( 4) separate dates on which the Respondent allegedly conducted parachute operations into or through clouds (8 December 2013, 5 January 2014, 22 March 2014 and 25 March 2014) and alleged violations of 14 C.F.R. §105.17: "No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command ofan aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from 

### -I-that aircraft ... [i]nto orthrough a cloud ..." and 14 C.P.R. §91.13 (a): "No person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property ofanother." 3. Respondent is a "small business concern." 4. The Complaint states that: 

### 1. Pursuant to Title 49 U.S.C. Section 46301, Respondent is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $11,000.00 for each ofthe violations alleged. 2. Under the facts and circumstances ofthis case, a civil penalty of$55,000.00 is appropriate. 5. Complainant elected to issue a single Complaint incorporating two separate EIRs, with a total offour separate and distinct dates on which alleged violations occurred, and did so issue a single Complaint with four separate and distinct dates on which alleged violations occurred, to be heard in a single hearing before this honorable Court, with one single $55,000.00 civil penalty demand. 6. 14 C.P.R.§ 13.16(b) mandates that:

... the United States district courts have exclusivejurisdiction of any civil penalty action initiated by the PAA for violations described in those paragraphs, under 49 U.S.C. 46301(d)(4), if- (3) The amount in controversy is more than $50,000 for a violation committed by an individual or a small business concern on or after December 12, 2003; 7. The Court has not yet ruled on Respondent's previously made Motions to Dismiss (made at the beginning ofthe hearing and at the end ofthe hearing) and restated in its brieffiled with the Court on 27 December 2016, however Respondent contends that because oflack ofsubject-matterjurisdiction, the Court did not have -2-jurisdictionto hear the case, and consequently the Court had nojurisdiction to issue any orders inthis matter, including but not limited to the Order Setting Deadline For Posthearing Briefs. 8. Respondent's prior motions to dismiss said motions and briefare hereby incorporated herein by reference. 9. Respondent seeks dismissal ofthe case for lack ofsubject-matterjurisdiction and further seeks that the Court vacate its Order Setting Deadline For Posthearing Briefs on tl1e same basis. Wherefore, Respondent moves that this honorable Court vacate its Order Setting Deadline For Posthearing Briefs, and dismiss Administrator's Complaint in this cause for lack of subject-matterjurisdiction, and for such other and further reliefas this Court may deemjust and proper, given fue Court's lack of jurisdiction in this case.

-3- Respectfully submitted,



# ~/-~ Robert L. Feldman, Esq., B.C.S. Attorney for the Respondent, Pacific International Skydiving Center Florida Bar Board Certified in Aviation Law 

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### 305-598-4842 Email: rlfeldmanlaw@hotmail.comCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that onthis date I have sent a true copy ofthe foregoing by Fedex, addressed to: Federal Aviation Administration 800 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20591 Attention: Hearing Docket Clerk, AGC-430 Wilbur Wright Building- Room 2W1 000 and by email and Fedex to: The Honorable Douglas M. Rawald, Administrative Law Judge Office ofHearings, M-20 U.S. Department ofTransportation 1200New Jersey Avenue, S.E. (Ell-310) Washington, DC 20590 Tel: 202-366-5121 Fax: 202-366-7536 Email: c/o Ms. Jacklyn Booker Gacklyn.booker@dot.gov) Don Bobertz, Esquire Office ofRegional Counsel, AWP-7 Federal Aviation Administration Western-Pacific Region 15000 Aviation Blvd Lawndale, CA 90261 Tel: 310-725-3454 Fax: 310-725-6816 Email: don.bobertz@faa.gov



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