---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2345"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2345"
heading: "Prehearing conference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2345"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 158 — Orders of Federal Agencies; Review"
---

# §2345. Prehearing conference


The [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) of appeals may hold a prehearing conference or direct a judge of the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) to hold a prehearing conference.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(e), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 622.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 1035. | Dec. 29, 1950, ch. 1189, § 5, 64 Stat. 1130. |