Rules Suggestions
The Advisory Committees evaluate in the first instance suggestions to amend the Federal Rules.
| Name of Individual and/or Organization | Date Received | Committee | Rule or Form |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sai (21-CV-K) | 04/16/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(c) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-BK-H) | 06/03/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Debra Baker (20-EV-K) | 09/03/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Thomas S. Zilly (18-CV-S) | 05/31/2018 | Civil | Rule 7.1 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-B) | 02/09/2021 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on IFP forms | Pending consideration |
| Daniel Hartnett (19-CV-O) | 04/12/2019 | Civil | Rule 12(a) | Pending consideration |
| Dana McWay (21-BK-N) | 10/13/2021 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on unclaimed funds | Pending consideration |
| Social Security Administration (17-CV-Q) | 05/26/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Henry A. Callaway (20-BK-I) | 11/13/2020 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3001 and Form B101 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (17-CR-B) | 07/23/2017 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Nora Freeman Engstrom (19-CV-C) | 01/22/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Eugene Volokh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (20-CV-T) | 08/06/2020 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| Michael Weston (19-CV-BB) | 10/15/2019 | Civil | Rule 4 | Pending consideration |
| Usha Jain (20-AP-C) | 06/24/2020 | Appellate | Access to electronic filing system for pro se litigants | Pending consideration |
| Georgia Ainsworth (20-EV-W) | 10/15/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Harvey D. Ellis, Jr., Esq. (11-AP-C) | 07/18/2011 | Appellate | FRAP 3(d)(1) | Pending consideration |
| John H. Beisner (18-CV-BB) | 11/21/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-D) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Peter W. Bowie (11-BK-F) | 07/22/2011 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Rules 7012, 7004(e), and 9006(f) | Considered |
| Raymond P. Bell (00-BK-A) | 01/18/2000 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(g), 3002(a) | Considered |
| John Vail (16-CV-H) | 11/02/2016 | Civil | Citation of Supplemental Authorities | Considered |
| Hon. William R. Wilson, Jr. (06-CV-G) | 11/09/2006 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Innocence Project (17-EV-B) | 09/01/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d)(1)(A) | Considered |
| NW Consumer Law Center (15-CV-W) | 05/13/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Matthew P. Millea (17-CV-GG) | 07/17/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Kenneth A. Lazarus, Esq. (08-EV-A) | 12/29/2008 | Evidence | Rules 407, 702, & 707 | Considered |
| Hon. B. Janice Ellington (03-CR-D) | 07/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. Raymond Lyons (10-BK-D) | 03/29/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9006(d) | Considered |
| Thomas Moers Mayer (21-BK-D) | 02/16/2021 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3007(c) | Considered |
| David J. Romano (17-CV-YYY) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |