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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Catherine McEwen (22-BK-G) | 07/12/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9016 | Pending consideration |
| Mediation Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute (17-BK-D) | 09/06/2017 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9019 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (97-BK-A) | 02/19/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9020 | Considered |
| Richard G. Heltzel (97-BK-E) | 07/22/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9022 | Considered |
| Jim F. Spencer, Jr., Esq. (11-BK-M) | 12/15/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9027 | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (97-BK-C) | 05/20/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9027 | Considered |
| Whitman L. Holt (18-BK-C) | 05/04/2018 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9033 | Considered |
| Wes Scott (20-BK-B) | 02/03/2020 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group, Bankruptcy Clerks Advisory Group, and Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (15-BK-H) | 08/17/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036 | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (18-BK-D) | 06/29/2018 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (02-BK-A) | 02/05/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036, 2002(g) | Considered |
| Thomas J. Yerbich (02-BK-E) | 05/01/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9104 | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-A) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with AEDPA; Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul G. Cassell (05-CR-D) | 03/05/2005 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with the Crime Victims Rights Act | Considered |
| Sharon Bush Ellison (09-CR-C) | 11/24/2009 | Criminal | Rules 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 | Considered |
| Betsy Shumaker (16-AP-E) | 09/23/2016 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, 27, 30 | Considered |
| U.S. Department of Justice (17-AP-H) | 10/14/2017 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, and 12 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Clerks Advisory Group (23-BK-J) | 06/15/2023 | Bankruptcy | Rules 1005 and 2002(n) | Pending consideration |
| Tricia Pepin (23-BK-D) | 03/10/2023 | Bankruptcy | Rules 1005 and 2002(n) | Pending consideration |
| Laura Bartell (22-BK-D) | 06/19/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rules 1007 and 5009(b) | Pending consideration |
| Gabriel J. Chin (13-CR-C) | 10/25/2013 | Criminal | Rules 11 and 32 | Considered |
| Carol Dalenko (10-CV-F) | 02/03/2011 | Civil | Rules 15(a)(1) and 12(f) | Considered |
| James E. Felman (05-CR-B) | 02/05/2005 | Criminal | Rules 16 & 32 | Considered |
| John Facciola and Jonathan Redgrave (23-CV-A) | 01/31/2023 | Civil | Rules 16 and 26 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-E) | 04/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(f)(7), 8014, and Director's Form B240 | Considered |
| Raymond P. Bell (00-BK-A) | 01/18/2000 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(g), 3002(a) | Considered |
| Hon. Samuel L. Bufford (89-BK-A) | 01/12/1990 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002, 2003, 2013, 3002, 3004, 3005, 3007, 3015 | Considered |
| U.S. Trustee Program (03-BK-D) | 08/15/2003 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2003, 2016, 4002, 4004, 7001 and Schedule I | Considered |
| U.S. Trustee Program (99-BK-H) | 07/22/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2010, 2015, and 4004 | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (20-CV-R) | 08/04/2020 | Civil | Rules 26(b)(5)(a) and 45(e)(2) | Pending consideration |