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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David R. Fine, Esq. (04-CV-A) | 01/15/2004 | Civil | Rules 5 & 6 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (10-CR-A) | 02/26/2010 | Criminal | Rules 5 and 58 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CV-EE) | 09/07/2015 | Civil | Rules 5 and 7 | Considered |
| Craig C. Reilly, Esq. (03-CV-E) | 08/06/2003 | Civil | Rules 54 & 72 | Considered |
| Hon. James T. Trimble, Jr. (04-CR-B) | 04/07/2004 | Criminal | Rules 6 & 31 | Considered |
| Irwin H. Warren, Esq. (03-CV-C) | 06/26/2003 | Civil | Rules 6 & 62 | Considered |
| Hon. Erik P. Kimball (11-BK-I) | 10/13/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008 and 7012 | Considered |
| Hon. Richard S. Schmidt (12-BK-E) | 03/05/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008, 7012, 9014 and 9027 | Considered |
| Kenneth A. Lazarus, Esq. and Professor Paul Rothstein (08-CV-C) | 10/27/2008 | Civil | Rules 8, 12, 16 & 37 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) Working Group (06-BK-D) | 08/18/2006 | Bankruptcy | Rules 8006, 8007 | Considered |
| Hon. Julie A. Robinson (12-CV-D) | 08/20/2012 | Civil | Rules concerning service; Notice of electronic filing as certificate of service | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (14-CR-D) | 04/15/2014 | Criminal | Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases | Considered |
| Robert B. Katz, Esq. (12-BK-F) | 04/17/2012 | Bankruptcy | Schedules I and J | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CR-E) | 06/19/2006 | Criminal | Sealed Cases | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CV-C) | 06/19/2006 | Civil | Sealed Cases | Considered |
| Hon. David H. Adams (98-BK-D) | 10/15/1998 | Bankruptcy | Service of Motions and Pleadings on Corporations, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associations | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (98-BK-A) | 01/16/1998 | Bankruptcy | Small Claims Procedure for Certain Adversary Proceedings | Considered |
| Hon. David S. Kennedy (09-BK-E) | 04/13/2009 | Bankruptcy | Special Masters | Considered |
| Alan Morrison (19-CV-B) | 01/22/2019 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Social Security Administration (17-CV-Q) | 05/26/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (18-CV-AA) | 11/20/2018 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Social Security Administration (18-CV-CC) | 11/29/2018 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-D) | 01/17/2018 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Administrative Conference of the United States (17-CV-D) | 01/13/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Jacques Pierre Ward (01-CV-A) | 01/08/2001 | Civil | Specify page limits for motions | Considered |
| Honorable Jon O. Newman (14-AP-B) | 01/04/2014 | Appellate | Standard for Appellate Review of Sentencing Errors | Considered |
| Sandra Milburn (18-BK-I) | 12/05/2018 | Bankruptcy | Statement of Intention | Considered |
| Conan L. Hom (02-CV-I) | 10/02/2002 | Civil | Style/ Language Simplification | Considered |
| US Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Alabama (Douglas F. Young) (07-BK-B) | 01/24/2007 | Bankruptcy | Suggested creating PDF-fillable forms | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (22-CV-E) | 05/20/2022 | Civil | Third party litigation funding | Pending consideration |