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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alane A. Becket (18-BK-A) | 01/25/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 113 and Rule 3015.1 | Considered |
| Christian Cooper (18-BK-F) | 08/15/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 122A-1 | Considered |
| Michael Mikikian (16-BK-A) | 01/28/2016 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 201 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan Pierson Sonderby (99-BK-B) | 01/13/1999 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 20B | Considered |
| Wendell J. Sherk, Esq. (11-BK-C) | 06/08/2011 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 22 | Considered |
| Hon. Michael J. Kaplan (12-BK-A) | 02/01/2012 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 3B | Considered |
| UCF Expert Panel (22-BK-C) | 05/19/2022 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 410 | Pending consideration |
| Aaron R. Cahn, Esq. (10-BK-I) | 12/17/2010 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 7 - SOFA | Considered |
| Marcy J.K. Tiffany/DOJ (97-BK-B) | 03/06/1997 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 9 | Considered |
| Sabrina L. McKinney (11-BK-D) | 06/24/2011 | Bankruptcy | Official Form B10 | Considered |
| Hon. Barry S. Schermer (12-BK-C) | 02/21/2012 | Bankruptcy | Official Form B10A | Considered |
| City of Chicago (21-BK-K) | 06/04/2021 | Bankruptcy | Official Form B113 | Considered |
| Scooter LeMay (10-BK-E) | 06/30/2010 | Bankruptcy | Official Forms | Considered |
| Debbie Lewis (18-BK-E) | 07/31/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Forms 101A and 101B | Considered |
| Hon. Morton Denlow (00-CV-F) | 08/08/2000 | Civil | Option for Summary Bench Trials | Considered |
| Scott W. Dales (99-BK-D) | 04/27/1999 | Bankruptcy | Part IX of Bankruptcy Rules | Considered |
| Carl E. Person (03-CR-C) | 04/01/2003 | Criminal | Plea Bargaining | Considered |
| Dean Michael Moffit (08-CV-B) | 08/19/2008 | Civil | Pleadings Standards | Considered |
| John Vail, Esq. (11-CV-I) | 11/03/2011 | Civil | Preservation Rules | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (18-AP-C) | 05/01/2018 | Appellate | Privacy Concern Regarding Social Security and Immigration Opinions | Pending consideration |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (18-CV-L) | 05/01/2018 | Civil | Privacy Concern Regarding Social Security and Immigration Opinions | Pending consideration |
| Public.Resource.org (Carl Malamud) (08-CV-D) | 10/30/2008 | Civil | Privacy Rules | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-BK-H) | 04/09/2021 | Bankruptcy | Pro se electronic signatures and CM/ECF | Considered |
| Forty-Five Professors (21-BK-B) | 01/29/2021 | Bankruptcy | Proposed amendment to Rule 7001 and new rule for certain turnover actions | Pending consideration |
| 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 |
| American Bar Association (06-BK-F) | 08/24/2006 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Attorney Discipline Amendments | Considered |
| Hon. Arthur J. Gonzalez (11-BK-L) | 12/10/2011 | Bankruptcy | Proposed modification to the Standing Order of Referral | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (15-CV-NN) | 11/09/2015 | Civil | Proposed New Rule re Mini Discovery and Prompt Trial | 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 |
| Baker & Hostetler LLP (06-BK-E) | 08/25/2006 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rule Allowing Increased Yield on Bankruptcy Estate Funds | Considered |