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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 7:6(b) Federal Commodity Exchange Regulation

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION, et al.

Plaintiffs,

 v.

NATIONAL INVESTMENT

CONSULTANTS, INC.,

Defendants.

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No. C 05-02641 JSW

NOTICE RE HEARING ON

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR A

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

This Notice Supplements the Notice of Tentative Ruling and Questions for Hearing filed

on August 23, 2005. 

The Court would like each party to address in detail their positions on whether the

transactions and contracts at issue are futures contracts or spot contracts. The parties should be

prepared to argue their positions by pointing to specific provisions of the Pacific Best Customer

Agreements, Trading Rules and Regulations, and the invoices in the record and pointing out

how the facts supporting their positions are analogous or distinguishable from the facts in CFTC

v. Frankwell Bullion, 1994 WL 449071 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 12, 1994). The parties may also show

how these facts render their position analogous to or distinguishable from the facts in, inter alia,

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CFTC v. Zelener, 373 F.3d 861 (7th Cir. 2004) and CFTC v. Int’l Foreign Currency, Inc., 334

F. Supp. 2d 305 (E.D.N.Y. 2004). 

Dated: August 24, 2005 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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