49 CFR § 1103.14 - Private communications with the Board are prohibited.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s1103.14"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "49 CFR § 1103.14 - Private communications with the Board are prohibited."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "1103.14"
section_name: "Private communications with the Board are prohibited."
chapter_name: "SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "RULES OF PRACTICE"
part_number: "1103"
part_name: "PRACTITIONERS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "21 U.S.C. 862; 49 U.S.C. 1303(c), 1321."
regulatory_source: "47 FR 49549, Nov. 1, 1982, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1103"
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# 1103.14 Private communications with the Board are prohibited.
To the extent that the Board acts in a quasi-judicial capacity, it is improper for litigants, directly or through any counsel or representative, to communicate privately with a Board Member, administrative law judge, or other representative of the Board about a pending case, or to argue privately the merits thereof in the absence of the adversaries or without notice to them. Practitioners at all times shall scrupulously refrain from going beyond *ex parte* representations which are clearly proper in view of the administrative work of the Board in their communication with the Board and its staff.