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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laila S. Gonzalez, Esq. (12-BK-K) | 07/25/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3002.1 | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (21-CV-A) | 01/05/2021 | Civil | Rule 65(e) | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-CV-LL) | 10/26/2015 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Robert B. Landry, III (17-CV-KKK) | 07/25/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Steve Allen (03-CR-F) | 11/05/2003 | Criminal | Habeas Corpus Rule 9 | Considered |
| Thomas Sims (17-CV-DDDDD) | 08/02/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| MacKechnie (06-CV-D) | 07/24/2006 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Howard Bashman, Esq. (10-AP-E) | 04/01/2010 | Appellate | In response to Vanderwerf v. Smithkline Beecham Corp. | Considered |
| Hon. Keith M. Lundin (03-BK-A) | 03/04/2003 | Bankruptcy | Development of a Chapter 13 Plan Form | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-A) | 03/09/2015 | Appellate | Availability of ECF for use by Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| Michael J. Merrick (17-CV-VV) | 07/19/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Professor Martha L. Minow (01-CV-C) | 10/11/2001 | Civil | Rule 15(c)(3) | Considered |
| Committee on Federal Courts of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (13-CV-E) | 04/03/2013 | Civil | Rules 45 and 30 | Considered |
| Robert L. Byer and David R. Fine (00-CR-C) | 08/15/2000 | Criminal | Criminal Rules and Forms (AEDPA) | Considered |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (Jonathan G. Katz) (08-BK-O) | 02/06/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2019 | Considered |
| DRI (15-CV-DD) | 09/10/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Columbia Legal Services (17-CV-NNNN) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. James T. Trimble, Jr. (04-CV-F) | 04/07/2004 | Civil | Rule 48 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (00-BK-D) | 03/16/2000 | Bankruptcy | Establishment of a Small Claims Procedure | Considered |
| Hon. Harvey Schlesinger (10-CR-B) | 06/08/2010 | Criminal | Rule 17(a) | Considered |
| Thomas Moers Mayer (16-CV-J) | 11/21/2016 | Civil | A new Federal Rule of Civil Procedure to apply to cases under Title VI of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act | Considered |
| Hon. Erik P. Kimball (11-BK-I) | 10/13/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008 and 7012 | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (Barry H. Bauman, Esq.) (11-CV-D) | 08/18/2011 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (19-BK-I) | 08/21/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking regarding DSO certification. | Considered |
| Barry H. Bauman, Esq. for himself, and on behalf of Lawyers for Civil Justice, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel and DRI - Voice of the Defense Bar (11-CV-E) | 10/31/2011 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Hon. Michael Baylson (19-CV-V) | 06/26/2019 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Mark Thompson, Esaq.) (07-BK-G) | 11/26/2007 | Bankruptcy | 2019 | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (15-BK-E) | 07/10/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |
| Patrick Yancey (17-CV-JJ) | 07/17/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Professor Bradley Scott Shannon (02-CV-F) | 06/10/2002 | Civil | Civil Rules and Forms | Considered |