I wonder if he actually spent the night in jail?
Here's the filing he made (from Frequency1's link):
MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME
Royce International Broadcasting Corporation (“Royce”) and Silver State Broadcasting, Inc. (“Silver State”) (together, “Petitioners”), by their attorney, hereby request a ten-business day extension of time within which to respond to the “Opposition to Petition to Deny” filed on February 18, 2021, on behalf of W. Lawrence Patrick, Receiver (the “Receiver”) and the “Reply to Supplement to Petition to Deny” also filed on behalf of the Receiver, on February 23, 2021. With respect thereto, the following is stated:
As reported to the FCC on February 19, 2021 , the Receiver in this case is engaging in
what is believed to be inappropriate behavior, by seeking an Order from the Judge presiding in California, Eastern Division, requiring the parties in this proceeding to literally dismiss the Petition to Deny current pending before the FCC. For the reasons stated in the Supplement, it is Petitioners’ position that this attempt on the part of the Receiver to totally avoid FCC is contrary to Commission and judicial precedent. The controlling case in this area is Radio Station WOW v. Johnson, 326 U.S. 120 (1945), which was a case concerning the relationship of the FCC to the power of a local court. In that case, Supreme Court of Nebraska had attempted to order a party "to do all things necessary" to secure the assignment of the license back to the predecessor licensee. That ruling by the Supreme Court of Nebraska was rejected by the United States Supreme Court. Id. at 130. As the Supreme Court stated:
it is urged that by ordering the parties "to do all things necessary" to secure a return of the license to the defrauded Society, the State court invaded the Commission's function.
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[W]e think the court went outside its bounds when it ordered the parties "to do all things necessary" to secure a return of the license. Plainly that requires the Society to ask the Commission for a retransfer of the license to it and requires WOW not to oppose such transfer.... nsofar as the Nebraska decree orders the parties "to do all things necessary" to secure the return of the license, it hampers the freedom of the Society not to continue in broadcasting and to restrict itself, as it properly may, to its insurance business. Equally does it prevent WOW from opposing a return to the Society... These are restrictions not merely upon the private rights of parties as to whom a State court may make appropriate findings of fraud. They are restrictions upon the licensing system which Congress established. It disregards practicalities to deny that, by controlling the conduct of parties before the Communications Commission, the court below reached beyond the immediate controversy and into matters that do not belong to it.
(Full PDF attached)
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