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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy M. Smith, Esq. (11-AP-F) | 12/07/2011 | Appellate | Consider amendment authorizing discretionary interlocutory appeals from attorney-client privilege rulings | Considered |
| T. Jones (11-CV-H) | 11/05/2011 | Civil | Commencing an Action, Pleadings | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States (Hon. John W. Lungstrum) (04-CR-C) | 08/02/2004 | Criminal | CM/ECF – Mandatory Electronic Filing | Considered |
| Professor Bradley Scott Shannon (02-CV-F) | 06/10/2002 | Civil | Civil Rules and Forms | Considered |
| J. Michael Schaefer, Esq. (00-CV-A) | 01/24/2000 | Civil | Civil Rules | Considered |
| Mary Novotny Pena (18-CV-Z) | 11/09/2018 | Civil | Civil Rules | Considered |
| Daniel DeWit (11-CV-B) | 08/25/2011 | Civil | Civil Rule 33 (Interrogatories) | Considered |
| James Polt (11-CV-C) | 08/23/2011 | Civil | Civil Rule 26(f) | Considered |
| Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal for Professor A. Benjamin Spencer (06-EV-A) | Evidence | Civil Rule 26 | Considered | |
| Joseph Johnson, Jr. (11-CV-F) | 10/19/2011 | Civil | Civil Rule 11 | Pending consideration |
| John Vail (16-CV-H) | 11/02/2016 | Civil | Citation of Supplemental Authorities | Considered |
| Kathleen Crosser (09-BK-G) | 10/07/2009 | Bankruptcy | Chapter 15 Rules and Forms | Considered |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (11-BK-E) | 07/24/2011 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Rules 7016 and 8001 | Considered |
| Hon. Peter W. Bowie (11-BK-F) | 07/22/2011 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Rules 7012, 7004(e), and 9006(f) | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar, Hon. Carol Doyle and Hon. Bruce W. Black (11-BK-K) | 11/23/2011 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Rules 7008, 9027 and 9033, and new rule 7008.1 | Considered |
| Hon. Geraldine Mund (09-BK-C) | 03/11/2009 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Forms and Rules | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (16-BK-E) | 04/07/2016 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Appellate Rules | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-A) | 03/09/2015 | Appellate | Availability of ECF for use by Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (06-BK-A) | 03/16/2006 | Bankruptcy | Authorization of Corporations and Entities Involving Less Than $5000 Without Representation | Considered |
| Wayne R. Bodow (99-BK-C) | 03/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Attorney Fees in Chapter 13 Cases | Considered |
| Ben H. Logan and Peter Friedman (15-BK-F) | 08/04/2015 | Bankruptcy | Amendments in the Wake of Stern v. Marshall, Arkison and Wellness | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (05-CR-F) | 11/02/2005 | Criminal | AEDPA/Habeas Petitions | Considered |
| Kelly D. Warfield (07-CR-C) | 10/29/2007 | Criminal | AEDPA Statute of Limitations | Considered |
| Professor David J. Sharpe (07-CV-D) | 05/06/2008 | Civil | Admiralty Rules | Considered |
| The Maritime Law Association of the United States (William R. Dorsey) (01-CV-B) | 06/15/2001 | Civil | Admiralty Rule B | Considered |
| Hon. Robert D. Martin (05-BK-D) | 11/01/2005 | Bankruptcy | Addressing Notices Pursuant to Rule 2002 | Considered |
| Usha Jain (20-AP-C) | 06/24/2020 | Appellate | Access to electronic filing system for pro se litigants | Pending consideration |
| Thomas Moers Mayer (16-CV-J) | 11/21/2016 | Civil | A new Federal Rule of Civil Procedure to apply to cases under Title VI of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (18-CV-X) | 09/14/2018 | Civil | 7, 20, 23.3 (new), 26(a) | Pending consideration |
| Appeal Finality After Consolidation Joint Subcommittee | 03/27/2018 | Civil | 42(a) | Pending consideration |