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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel L. Bray (17-CV-E) | 03/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 65 | Considered |
| Mark Bennett (19-CV-S) | 07/16/2019 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Professor James Grimmelmann (14-CV-A) | 03/10/2014 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| National Federation of Independent Business (17-CV-Z) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Dennis P. Murphy (17-CV-RRR) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Richard Hertling (21-CV-R) | 07/23/2021 | Civil | Rule 63 | Pending consideration |
| John Paul Truskett (17-CV-FFF) | 07/23/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP (17-CV-XXXX) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Committee on Federal Procedure of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association (Gregory K. Arenson, Esq.) (02-CV-D) | 05/07/2002 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Bentham IMF (17-CV-YYYYY) | 09/06/2017 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Ingrid M. Evans (15-CV-Q) | 04/02/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CV-C) | 06/19/2006 | Civil | Sealed Cases | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (18-CV-J) | 04/06/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Ariana J. Tadler, Esq. and William P. Butterfield, Esq. (11-CV-G) | 11/06/2011 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Timothy J. Patenode (17-CV-M) | 05/24/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (21-CV-A) | 01/05/2021 | Civil | Rule 65(e) | Considered |
| Michael Weston (19-CV-BB) | 10/15/2019 | Civil | Rule 4 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CV-K) | 04/16/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(c) | Pending consideration |
| Paul Ford (17-CV-PP) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| National Employment Lawyers Association, Georgia Affiliate (17-CV-HHHH) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Washington Legal Foundation (20-CV-D) | 03/19/2020 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on MDL proceedings | Pending consideration |
| Turner, Reid, Duncan, Loomer & Patton, P.C. (17-CV-KKKKK) | 08/03/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Mark Wray (15-CV-A) | 01/17/2015 | Civil | Rule 81 | Pending consideration |
| Joshua Goodbaum (21-CV-Y) | 11/12/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(d)(1) | 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 |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (04-CV-E) | 04/07/2004 | Civil | Rule 8 | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (17-CV-HHHHHH) | 12/15/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Victor Schwartz (18-CV-P) | 06/07/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| G. Madan Mohan (15-CV-OO) | 12/29/2015 | Civil | Proposed new rule re: time stamp/seal on all documents and accommodations for visually impaired | Considered |
| Mark Estes, Esq. (09-CV-B) | 06/21/2009 | Civil | Electronic Service | Considered |