§ 160.500 Applicability
§ 160.502 Definitions
§ 160.504 Hearing before an ALJ
§ 160.506 Rights of the parties
§ 160.508 Authority of the ALJ
§ 160.510 Ex parte contacts
§ 160.512 Prehearing conferences
§ 160.514 Authority to settle
§ 160.516 Discovery
§ 160.518 Exchange of witness lists, witness statements, and exhibits
§ 160.520 Subpoenas for attendance at hearing
§ 160.522 Fees
§ 160.524 Form, filing, and service of papers
§ 160.526 Computation of time
§ 160.528 Motions
§ 160.530 Sanctions
§ 160.532 Collateral estoppel
§ 160.534 The hearing
§ 160.536 Statistical sampling
§ 160.538 Witnesses
§ 160.540 Evidence
§ 160.542 The record
§ 160.544 Post hearing briefs
§ 160.546 ALJ’s decision
§ 160.548 Appeal of the ALJ’s decision
§ 160.550 Stay of the Secretary’s decision
§ 160.552 Harmless error

Terms Used In CFR > Title 45 > Subtitle A > Subchapter C > Part 160 > Subpart E - Procedures for Hearings

  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.