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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Folkman (20-CV-FF) | 11/05/2020 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, Esq. (11-AP-E) | 11/14/2011 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Jeremy A. Colby (03-CV-F) | 08/26/2003 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Professor Paul D. Carrington (09-CV-A) | 04/06/2009 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Petition by Russell Alexander (12-CV-A) | 03/14/2012 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Mark J. Armbruster (14-CV-C) | 04/02/2014 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Hon. Bernard Zimmerman (01-CR-A) | 01/29/2001 | Criminal | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (12-CR-B) | 10/25/2012 | Criminal | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-CV-LL) | 10/26/2015 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Thomas L. Wright (16-AP-A) | 02/12/2016 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (16-AP-B). (See also, 16-AP-A, Suggestion from Thomas L. Wright) | 03/28/2016 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Greg Patmythes (21-AP-A) | 01/18/2021 | Appellate | Rule 4 and Rule 6 | Pending consideration |
| Joshua Goodbaum (21-CV-Y) | 11/12/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(d)(1) | Pending consideration |
| Patrick Borchers (18-CV-E) | 01/23/2018 | Civil | Rule 4(k)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (18-CR-G) | 12/10/2018 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| Hon. Zachary Bolitho (23-CR-H) | 11/27/2023 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Pending consideration |
| Magistrate Judges Advisory Group (24-CR-D) | 05/14/2024 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (03-CR-A) | 01/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (16-BK-D) | 04/06/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4001(c) | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (15-BK-E) | 07/10/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |
| Hon. Barry Russell (01-BK-D) | 04/16/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |
| Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff (04-BK-B) | 02/27/2004 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Frank Easterbrook (08-BK-E) | 06/16/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4004(d), Rule 7001(4) | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group (01-BK-E) | 12/17/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4008 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (10-BK-K) | 02/03/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4008(a) | Considered |
| Professor Bradley Scott Shannon (14-CV-D) | 04/29/2014 | Civil | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. B. Janice Ellington (03-CR-D) | 07/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Ninth Circuit Judicial Council Pacific Islands Committee (Sally Pym) (06-CR-G) | 09/19/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Law (Hon. Julie E. Carnes) (08-CR-A) | 06/24/2008 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. Mythili Raman (13-CR-B) | 09/18/2013 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |