Entertainment Media Trust Trustee Argues Against Enforcement Bureau
FCC rules allow “any party” to a proceeding to appear in person before the FCC, said Entertainment Media Trust trustee Dennis Watkins in a filing in docket 19-156 responding to Enforcement Bureau arguments that an official of a trust can't…
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represent the trust pro se before the FCC (see 1912260042). Since Watkins is the trustee of EMT, he should be able to represent the trust in the broadcaster’s license hearing, he said. Watkins also said if Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin disagrees that Watkins qualifies as a party, she should use the discretion she's given in another section of the rules to authorize his appearance. Halprin previously said if an EMT representative didn’t file a notice of appearance in the matter, the case could be dismissed. That would likely mean the loss of EMT’s licenses.