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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Bankruptcy Conference (23-BK-C) | 02/27/2023 | Bankruptcy | Rules 9014, 9017, and proposed new Rule 7043 | |
| Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (02-BK-A) | 02/05/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036, 2002(g) | Considered |
| Gabriel J. Chin (13-CR-C) | 10/25/2013 | Criminal | Rules 11 and 32 | Considered |
| Stephen P. Stoltz, Esq. (07-CV-C) | 05/06/2008 | Civil | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Next Generation Bankruptcy CM/ECF Clerk's Office Functional Requirements Group (Dana C. McWay) (09-BK-I) | 11/25/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007(b)(7) | Considered |
| Paul Ford (17-CV-PP) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (17-CV-HHHHHH) | 12/15/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Thomas Sheehan (20-EV-E) | 06/09/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Mark J. Armbruster (14-CV-C) | 04/02/2014 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Peter Choate (20-EV-U) | 10/10/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Debra Miller (11-BK-H) | 09/28/2011 | Bankruptcy | Deficiency Claims | Considered |
| Troy J. Doucet (15-CV-X) | 08/21/2015 | Civil | Rule 45 | Considered |
| National Employment Lawyers Association, Georgia Affiliate (17-CV-HHHH) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (18-EV-A) | 10/10/2018 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| David W. Ostrander, Esq. (13-BK-A) | 01/10/2013 | Bankruptcy | Individual Debtor Cases | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-E) | 04/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(f)(7), 8014, and Director's Form B240 | Considered |
| Hon. Jack B. Weinstein (07-CR-E) | 06/03/2007 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Colleen Brown (08-BK-I) | 08/22/2008 | Bankruptcy | Form 3B | Considered |
| Mark Bennett (19-CV-S) | 07/16/2019 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Hon. Sandra S. Beckwith (05-CV-E) | 07/13/2005 | Civil | Rule 56 – Discretion in ruling on motions for summary judgment | Considered |
| A. Benjamin Spencer (20-CV-Z) | 08/28/2020 | Civil | Rule 9(b) | Considered |
| Douglas M. Neistat, Esq. (10-BK-F) | 07/28/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6004-1(f) | Considered |
| Public Citizen Litigation Group (15-CV-T) | 04/09/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| James J. Ream (17-CV-CC) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Victor Schwartz (18-CV-P) | 06/07/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | 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. S. Martin Teel, Jr. (14-BK-F) | 08/22/2014 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004(a)(1) | Considered |
| Benjamin C. Mizer (15-CV-PP) | 12/04/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Jeffrey T. Jones (17-CV-UUU) | 07/29/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| National Consumer Law Center, Inc. and National Association of Consumer Advocates (19-CV-L) | 03/29/2019 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |