The independent Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) will meet on Friday to decide if the judges must testify before it.
Canadian officials appealed to the court on Thursday to award a gold medal to their world champions Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, who were controversially defeated in the Olympic pairs competition.
The Canadian Olympic Committee asked the CAS to compel the nine judges to testify before the court over allegations of irregularities.
A CAS spokesman said that Friday's hearing, scheduled for 2000 GMT, would decide whether to grant the Canadians' request for the judges' evidence.
"The ISU recognises that they should get a result out as soon as possible in the interests of the athletes and everybody"
IOC board member Kevan Gosper
Until then, the arbitration panel ordered the International Skating Union (ISU) to ensure that its referees and judges remain in Salt Lake City and be prepared to bring along any records relating to their scoring of the event.
Canadian officials previously said they did not want the Russian pair of Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze stripped of their gold.
But they believe Sale and Pelletier should be rewarded if any evidence of wrongdoing is uncovered.
Technical flaw
In the appeal to the CAS, the Canadians asked that the gold medal be awarded "on the merits of the case".
The move pre-empts the ISU's own investigation into the affair, which is expected to conclude on Monday.
Skating chiefs have sped up the process under pressure from International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge.
"We feel that we skated good enough to be the Olympic champions"
Russian skater Anton Sikharulidze
IOC executive board member Kevan Gosper said: "The ISU recognises that, as a result of our requests, that they should get a result out as soon as possible in the interests of the athletes and everybody."
Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were originally awarded gold by a 5-4 majority among the judges, despite a technical flaw in their performance.
The ISU then received unspecified allegations from a number of sources, including event referee Ron Pfenning.
French Olympic chief Didier Gailhaguet has denied implicating the judge in question, despite being quoted as naming an "emotionally fragile" official who had been "put under pressure".
Gailhaguet now denies this and says his comments have been twisted.
Sikharulidze, the skater at the heart of the rumpus, said: "We feel that we skated good enough to be the Olympic champions.
"I am not a guy who wants to steal a medal from somebody."