TITLE 29 - LABOR

SUBTITLE B - REGULATIONS RELATING TO LABOR

CHAPTER IV - OFFICE OF LABOR - MANAGEMENT STANDARDS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

SUBCHAPTER B - STANDARDS OF CONDUCT

PART 458 - STANDARDS OF CONDUCT

subpart c - HEARING AND RELATED MATTERS

458.73 - Prehearing conferences.

  (a) Upon his own motion or the motion of the parties, the Administrative Law Judge may direct the parties or their counsel to meet with him for a conference to consider: (1) Simplification of the issues; (2) Necessity or desirability of amendments to pleadings for purposes of clarification, simplification, or limitations; (3) Stipulations, admissions of fact, and contents and authenticity of documents; (4) Limitation of the number of expert witnesses; and (5) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of the proceeding.

  (b) The record shall show the matters disposed of by order and by agreement in such prehearing conferences. The subsequent course of the proceeding shall be controlled by such action.

[45 FR 15158, Mar. 7, 1980. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 31311, 31313, Aug. 1, 1985]