[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR10.41]

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              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 10_RULES OF PRACTICE--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart D_Prehearing Procedures; Prehearing Conferences; Discovery; 
                               Depositions
 
Sec.  10.41  Prehearing conferences; procedural matters.


    In any proceeding the Administrative Law Judge may direct that one 
or more conferences be held for the purpose of:
    (a) Clarifying issues;
    (b) Examining the possibility of obtaining stipulations, admissions 
of fact

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and of authenticity or contents of documents;
    (c) Determining matters of which official notice may be taken;
    (d) Discussing amendments to pleadings;
    (e) Limiting the number of witnesses;
    (f) Considering objections to the introduction of documentary 
evidence and the testimony of witnesses identified in prehearing 
materials filed or otherwise furnished by the parties pursuant to Sec.  
10.42;
    (g) Discussing adoption of shortened procedures pursuant to Sec.  
10.92;
    (h) Promoting a fair and expeditious hearing.

At or following the conclusion of a prehearing conference, the 
Administrative Law Judge shall serve a prehearing memorandum containing 
agreements reached and any procedural determinations made by him, unless 
the conference shall have been recorded and transcribed in written form 
and a copy of the transcript has been made available to each party.

[41 FR 2511, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 63 FR 55791, Oct. 19, 1998]