---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 10.41"
title: "17"
number: "10.41"
heading: "Prehearing conferences; procedural matters."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/10.41"
---

# §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 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 [§ 10.42](/cfr/17/10.42.md);
- (g) Discussing adoption of shortened procedures pursuant to [§ 10.92](/cfr/17/10.92.md);
- (h) **Promoting a fair and expeditious hearing.**

## Notes

### Amendments

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

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 93-463, sec. 101(a)(11), 88 Stat. 1391; 7 U.S.C. 2(a)(12).

### Source

Source: 41 FR 2511, Jan. 16, 1976, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

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