An Alaskan broadcaster asked the FCC not to toss its...
An Alaskan broadcaster asked the FCC not to toss its petition to deny certain wireless and broadcast license transfer applications because of procedural flaws. Fireweed Communications owner Jeremy Lansman admitted he failed to serve his late-filed petition to deny transactions…
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involving ACS Wireless License Sub, The Alaska Wireless Network, GCI and Affiliated Media, Inc. One party had complained that it was never served with Fireweed’s petition and another said it should be dismissed both on procedural and substantive grounds, he wrote. But Lansman said he should be given some leeway because he’s representing himself. “Where a pro se litigant makes procedural errors, courts have ruled that leniency is called for so long as judicial neutrality is maintained,” he wrote in a reply to the oppositions to his petition (http://bit.ly/ZLaTG5).