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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walt Auvil (17-CV-LLL) | 07/25/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| William S. Karn (03-CV-D) | 07/31/2003 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Roy T. Englert, Jr., Esq (13-AP-B) | 03/18/2013 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr. (03-CR-G) | 11/26/2003 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Morton Denlow (00-CV-F) | 08/08/2000 | Civil | Option for Summary Bench Trials | Considered |
| Terrell Marshal Law Group PLLC (17-CV-EEEEE) | 08/02/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Raymond P. Bell (00-BK-A) | 01/18/2000 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(g), 3002(a) | Considered |
| Gregg R. Zegarelli, Esq. (10-CV-D) | 12/08/2010 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Honorable Stuart Bernstein (13-BK-I) | 08/02/2013 | Bankruptcy | Forms 9F and 9F(Alt.) | Considered |
| Derek S. Tarson (15-BK-A) | 02/06/2015 | Bankruptcy | Forms | Considered |
| Innocence Project (17-EV-B) | 09/01/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d)(1)(A) | Considered |
| Malinda A. Gaul (17-CV-WW) | 07/19/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Peter Lushing (17-EV-C) | 09/26/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d) | Considered |
| Corey J. L. Walker (17-CV-XX) | 07/20/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Tommy E. Miller (00-CR-E) | 12/11/2000 | Criminal | Rules 42 & 58 (Federal Courts Improvement Act) | Considered |
| Sai (15-BK-I) | 09/07/2015 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Sabrina L. McKinney (11-BK-D) | 06/24/2011 | Bankruptcy | Official Form B10 | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (18-CV-U) | 06/11/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Jennifer Danish (17-CV-PPPP) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (20-CR-F) | 05/05/2020 | Criminal | Rule 59 | Considered |
| Professor David J. Sharpe (07-CV-D) | 05/06/2008 | Civil | Admiralty Rules | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (21-CV-E) | 02/16/2021 | Civil | Rule 37(c)(1) | Considered |
| Professor Carrie Leonetti (11-CR-A) | 06/13/2011 | Criminal | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Hon. Jesse M. Furman (17-CV-A) | 01/10/2017 | Civil | Rule 68 and Pre-Motion Conferences | Considered |
| Alan Morrison (14-AP-A) | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered | |
| Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP (98-BK-B) | 07/27/1998 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2003 | Considered |
| Judge Julie A. Robinson, on behalf of the Judicial Conference's Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (14-BK-B) | 02/05/2014 | Bankruptcy | Various Rules | Considered |
| Rena M. Myers (10-BK-B) | 02/18/2010 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 10 | Considered |
| W. Scott Lythgoe (17-CV-KK) | 07/17/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Geraldine Mund (09-BK-C) | 03/11/2009 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Forms and Rules | Considered |