Halprin Strikes EMT Status Report
Status reports filed in the hearing proceeding on licenses owned by Entertainment Media Trust should update the judge (see 1910020037) and not contain arguments, said FCC Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin in an order posted Thursday in docket 19-156. She…
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granted a motion to strike a status report filed by Donald Samson, bankruptcy trustee for EMT trustee Dennis Watkins. The motion to strike -- filed by another party in the case, Mark Kern -- argued the trustee isn’t a party there, and the report was “instead a substantive legal filing in support of EMT’s pending motion for stay,” the order said. In striking the trustee filing, Halprin rendered moot an Enforcement Bureau response. Halprin last week denied EMT’s motion to stay the ALJ proceeding to allow the stations to be sold as part of a bankruptcy process, but she also put the case on hold pending Media Bureau resolution of an application that would involuntarily transfer EMT’s stations to the trustee. Halprin said status reports should resume in November, by which time the trustee’s place in the proceeding will be clearer.