Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit January 11, 1977, 74-1775 (George F. Frey, Jr., and Edward A. Cox, Jr., Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee v. The Commodity Exchange Authority)

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge.

We are asked in this appeal to decide whether a respondent, charged in an administrative proceeding with “manipulating the price of a commodity for future delivery” in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 9, 13, and 13(b), is entitled as a matter of right to pre-hearing discovery. The district court has held that the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C.