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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Federal Courts of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (13-CV-E) | 04/03/2013 | Civil | Rules 45 and 30 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CR-D) | 09/07/2015 | Criminal | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| The Gittes Law Group (17-CV-SSSS) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Ana M. Kocur, General Counsel, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (18-AP-E) | 12/18/2018 | Appellate | Rule 25 | Considered |
| Commercial Law League of America (01-BK-A) | 01/10/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2014, Rule 9014, 7026 | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States (Hon. John W. Lungstrum) (04-CV-G) | 08/02/2004 | Civil | Rule 5(e) | Considered |
| Allison M. Zieve, Esq. ( Public Citizen Litigation Group) (11-CR-D) | 12/15/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) | Considered |
| Gary Peel (21-CV-M) | 05/17/2021 | Civil | New rule regarding time frame for motion resolution | Considered |
| George Weiss (19-BK-K) | 09/16/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking regarding DSO certification; Supplements 19-BK-I | Considered |
| Sheila Birnbaum and Mark Cheffo (20-EV-Q) | 10/02/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Barry H. Bauman, Esq. for himself, and on behalf of Lawyers for Civil Justice, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel and DRI - Voice of the Defense Bar (11-CV-E) | 10/31/2011 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Hon. Susan P. Graber (15-CR-C) | 08/07/2015 | Criminal | Rules 32.1 and 23 | Considered |
| Mary E. Kelly (17-CV-CCCC) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Debbie Lewis (18-BK-E) | 07/31/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Forms 101A and 101B | Considered |
| Hon. Keith M. Lundin (08-BK-L) | 12/05/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2003 | Considered |
| Hon. James S. Sledge (98-BK-E) | 12/07/1998 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3015 | Considered |
| Professor Bradley Scott Shannon (02-CV-F) | 06/10/2002 | Civil | Civil Rules and Forms | Considered |
| Federal Defender Sentencing Guideline Committee (Jon M. Sands) (06-CR-H) | 10/24/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32(h) | Considered |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (04-CR-A) | 03/17/2004 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (16-BK-D) | 04/06/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4001(c) | Considered |
| John H. Hickey (17-CV-VVVVV) | 08/15/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| George Weiss (19-BK-F) | 06/30/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3002 | Considered |
| David S. Yen, Esq. (11-BK-N) | 01/25/2012 | Bankruptcy | Form 3B | Considered |
| Kelly Sweeney (06-BK-B) | 05/05/2006 | Bankruptcy | Modification to the Reaffirmation Agreement Form | Considered |
| Charles Silver (15-CV-O) | 03/24/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| J. David Stradley (17-CV-X) | 07/10/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Collins Fitzpatrick (18-CR-C) | 05/03/2018 | Criminal | Rule 43(a) | Considered |
| 50 Companies (20-EV-B) | 03/02/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (07-BK-C) | 05/30/2007 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1019(2), Rule 4003(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Donald Molloy (21-CR-A)(Rule 6) | 01/14/2021 | Criminal | Rule 6 | Considered |