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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John R. Getsinger (96-BK--) | 03/28/1996 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9009 | Considered |
| Judy B. Calton | 01/12/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7026 & 9014 | Considered |
| Honorable Eric L. Frank (13-BK-B) | 02/11/2013 | Bankruptcy | Form B1 | Considered |
| American Bar Association (06-BK-F) | 08/24/2006 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Attorney Discipline Amendments | Considered |
| Hon. Colleen Brown (08-BK-I) | 08/22/2008 | Bankruptcy | Form 3B | Considered |
| Richard Levin (19-BK-E) | 03/26/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2002 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (10-BK-K) | 02/03/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4008(a) | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-A) | 03/10/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8014 | Considered |
| Glen K. Palman (04-BK-A) | 02/19/2004 | Bankruptcy | Form B-10 and Directors Form for Transfer of Claim | Considered |
| US Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Alabama (Douglas F. Young) (07-BK-B) | 01/24/2007 | Bankruptcy | Suggested creating PDF-fillable forms | Considered |
| Hon. William F. Stone, Jr. (09-BK-J) | 12/15/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9013, Rule 9014, Need for additional rules and forms for payment of administrative expenses. | Considered |
| Ralph Brubaker, Robert Lawless, and Bruce Markell (21-BK-C) | 02/04/2021 | Bankruptcy | Proposed amendment to Rule 7001 and new rule for certain turnover actions | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Arthur J. Gonzalez (11-BK-L) | 12/10/2011 | Bankruptcy | Proposed modification to the Standing Order of Referral | Considered |
| City of Chicago (21-BK-K) | 06/04/2021 | Bankruptcy | Official Form B113 | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (15-BK-E) | 07/10/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |
| Mark Wolfson (22-BK-B) | 03/17/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1020(b); Official Forms 309E2 and 309F2 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (97-BK-A) | 02/19/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9020 | Considered |
| Patricia L. Meravi (01-BK-C) | 01/23/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3017.1, 7023.1, and 7023.2 | Considered |
| American Bankruptcy Institute's Task Force on National Ethics Standards (13-BK-C) | 03/14/2013 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2014 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (08-BK-J) | 10/01/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3001, Consumer Debt Trading | Considered |
| George Weiss (19-BK-J) | 09/10/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004 | Considered |
| Susan Ivancsis (10-BK-L) | 02/01/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan Pierson Sonderby (99-BK-B) | 01/13/1999 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 20B | Considered |
| Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff (04-BK-B) | 02/27/2004 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (07-BK-C) | 05/30/2007 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1019(2), Rule 4003(b) | Considered |
| National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees and Wells Fargo Corporation (George W. Stevenson, Esq.) (09-BK-K) | 12/16/2009 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 10 | Considered |
| Jim F. Spencer, Jr., Esq. (11-BK-M) | 12/15/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9027 | 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 |
| Marcy J.K. Tiffany/DOJ (97-BK-B) | 03/06/1997 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 9 | Considered |
| Hon. Barry Russell (01-BK-D) | 04/16/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |