Court Opinion

ID: 714935
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-04-17 06:50:27+00
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79 F.3d 169
316 U.S.App.D.C. 367
NOTICE: D.C. Circuit Local Rule 11(c) states that unpublished orders, judgments, and explanatory memoranda may not be cited as precedents, but counsel may refer to unpublished dispositions when the binding or preclusive effect of the disposition, rather than its quality as precedent, is relevant.DAVID ORTIZ RADIO CORPORATION, Appellant,v.FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee.
No. 95-1139.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Feb. 5, 1996.Suggestion for Rehearing In Banc Denied April 11, 1996.

Before:  HENDERSON, RANDOLPH and TATEL, Circuit Judges.
JUDGMENT
PER CURIAM.

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This case was heard on the record from the Federal Communications Commission and on the briefs and arguments of counsel.   The court has accorded the arguments full consideration and has determined that the issues presented occasion no need for a published opinion.   See D.C.Cir.Rule 36(b).   It is therefore

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ORDERED that the decision of the Commission be affirmed.   David Ortiz Radio Corporation (Ortiz Radio) and Ramon Rodriguez & Associates, Incorporated (RRAI) each applied for a construction permit for a new FM broadcast station in Puerto Rico.   After a comparative hearing an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) declared RRAI the winner, granting RRAI's application and denying Ortiz Radio's.   The Federal Communications Commission affirmed.   We remanded for the agency to hold an evidentiary hearing on whether RRAI had engaged in disqualifying conduct, specifically:  (1) whether RRAI misrepresented to the Commission the availability of its proposed transmitter site and (2) whether a principal of RRAI wrongly held himself out to be an employee of the Commission.  David Ortiz Radio Corp. v. FCC, 941 F.2d 1253 (D.C.Cir.1991).   On remand the ALJ held an evidentiary hearing, resolved both issues--as well as a misrepresentation issue regarding Ortiz Radio--favorably to RRAI and, consequently, reaffirmed that RRAI's application should be granted.   The full Commission affirmed and Ortiz Radio appeals.   We conclude that the agency's findings, based in large measure on witness credibility, are supported by substantial evidence and that its decision is not otherwise deficient.

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The clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate herein until seven days after disposition of any timely petition for rehearing.   See D.C.Cir.Rule 41(a)(1).