[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR12.11]

[Page 274-275]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 12_RULES RELATING TO REPARATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart A_General Information and Preliminary Consideration of Pleadings
 
Sec.  12.11  Formalities of filing of documents with the Proceedings Clerk.

    (a) Number of copies. Unless otherwise specifically provided, an 
original and one conformed copy of all documents shall be filed with the 
Proceedings Clerk.
    (b) Title page. All documents filed with the Proceedings Clerk must 
include at the head thereof, or on a title page, the name of the 
Commission, the title of the proceeding, the docket number (if one has 
yet been assigned by the Proceedings Clerk), the subject of the 
particular document and the name of the person on whose behalf the 
document is being filed. In the complaint the title of the proceeding 
shall include the names of all the complainants and respondents, but in 
documents subsequently filed it is sufficient to state the name of the 
first complainant and first respondent named in the complaint.
    (c) Paper, spacing, type. All documents filed under the Reparation 
Rules shall be typewritten, mimeographed, printed, or, if a party is not 
represented by counsel, in plainly legible handwriting; shall be on one 
grade of good white paper no less than 8 or more than 8\1/2\ inches wide 
and no less than

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10\1/2\ or more than 11\1/2\ inches long; and shall be bound on the top 
only. They shall be double-spaced, except for long quotations (3 or more 
lines) and footnotes which should be single-spaced.
    (d) Signature. The original copy of all papers must be signed in ink 
by the person filing the same or by his duly authorized agent or 
attorney.
    (e) Length and form of briefs. All briefs filed with the Proceedings 
Clerk containing more than 10 pages shall include an index and a table 
of cases and other authorities cited. The date of each brief shall 
appear on its front cover or title page and on its signature page. No 
brief shall exceed 35 pages in length, except with the permission of the 
Commission, or the Judgment Officer or Administrative Law Judge, before 
whom the matter is then pending.