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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Weiss (19-BK-D) | 03/23/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004 | Considered |
| Honorable Eric L. Frank (13-BK-B) | 02/11/2013 | Bankruptcy | Form B1 | Considered |
| Douglas M. Neistat, Esq. (10-BK-F) | 07/28/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6004-1(f) | Considered |
| Hon. James T. Trimble, Jr. (04-CR-B) | 04/07/2004 | Criminal | Rules 6 & 31 | Considered |
| Steven A. Hirsch (17-AP-D) | 04/14/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Skinner Law Firm (17-CV-GGGGG) | 08/02/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (Jonathan G. Katz) (08-BK-O) | 02/06/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2019 | Considered |
| Professor Paul D. Carrington (09-CV-A) | 04/06/2009 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, California (Hon. A. Wallace Tashima) (03-CV-B) | 05/08/2003 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| U.S. Trustee Program (03-BK-D) | 08/15/2003 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2003, 2016, 4002, 4004, 7001 and Schedule I | Considered |
| Prof. Kenneth N. Klee (15-BK-C) | 03/13/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8018 | Considered |
| Caryn M. Groedel (17-CV-YY) | 07/20/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Betsy Shumaker (16-AP-E) | 09/23/2016 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, 27, 30 | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, Esq. (11-AP-E) | 11/14/2011 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Hon. Bernard Zimmerman (01-CR-A) | 01/29/2001 | Criminal | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Theodore Folkman (20-CV-FF) | 11/05/2020 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CV-EE) | 09/07/2015 | Civil | Rules 5 and 7 | Considered |
| H. Brent McKnight Jr. (20-CR-J) | 11/08/2020 | Criminal | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CR-D) | 09/07/2015 | Criminal | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Mark Thompson, Esaq.) (07-BK-G) | 11/26/2007 | Bankruptcy | 2019 | Considered |
| Ana M. Kocur, General Counsel, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (18-CV-EE) | 12/18/2018 | Civil | Rule 5.2(c) | Considered |
| Hon. James A. Pusateri (00-BK-H) | 08/14/2000 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2002 | Considered |
| Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr. (11-CR-C) | 10/20/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) (amendment regarding historically significant grand jury material) | Considered |
| Gary Peel (21-AP-F) | 04/28/2021 | Appellate | New rule mandating time frame for motion resolution | Considered |
| Kevin P. Dempsey (17-BK-A) | 01/31/2017 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2013 | Considered |
| Martin Monica (17-CV-EEEEEE) | 10/11/2017 | Civil | Rule 5 | Considered |
| George Weiss (19-BK-J) | 09/10/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004 | Considered |
| Professor Sam Stonefield (10-EV-A) | 09/09/2010 | Evidence | Rule 801(d) | Considered |
| Professor Martha L. Minow (01-CV-C) | 10/11/2001 | Civil | Rule 15(c)(3) | Considered |
| American Association for Justice (20-EV-P) | 10/02/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |