Enforcement Bureau Wants EMT Extension Request Denied
Entertainment Media Trust’s (EMT) requests for extension of the filing deadline in its case before Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin should be denied, said the FCC Enforcement Bureau in a response filing posted Thursday in docket 19-156 (see 1909030061). EMT…
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waited until the day the filings were due to seek an extension, “in essence granting itself the very extensions it now seeks,” said the bureau. “Such gamesmanship should not be tolerated.” The ALJ should ignore EMT’s arguments that a possible bankruptcy will result in a stay because the broadcaster hasn’t declared bankruptcy, and doing so doesn’t always lead to a stay, the bureau said. EMT’s arguments that key personnel weren’t available to respond to the bureau’s discovery requests and that the bureau was beyond the limit on number of interrogatories should also be disregarded, the bureau said, since FCC rules don’t include such limits.