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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene Volokh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (20-CV-T) | 08/06/2020 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| Michael Weston (19-CV-BB) | 10/15/2019 | Civil | Rule 4 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (22-CV-L) | 09/02/2022 | Civil | Rule 23(b)(3) | Pending consideration |
| Usha Jain (20-AP-C) | 06/24/2020 | Appellate | Access to electronic filing system for pro se litigants | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (23-CV-L) | 04/24/2023 | Civil | Social Security Supplemental Rules | Pending consideration |
| John H. Beisner (18-CV-BB) | 11/21/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-BK-H) | 06/03/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Debra Baker (20-EV-K) | 09/03/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Robert Faris (22-BK-A) | 02/10/2022 | Bankruptcy | Pending consideration | |
| Hon. Thomas S. Zilly (18-CV-S) | 05/31/2018 | Civil | Rule 7.1 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-B) | 02/09/2021 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on IFP forms | Pending consideration |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (23-CR-B) | 03/10/2023 | Criminal | Rule 23(a) | Pending consideration |
| Daniel Hartnett (19-CV-O) | 04/12/2019 | Civil | Rule 12(a) | Pending consideration |
| Social Security Administration (17-CV-Q) | 05/26/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Henry A. Callaway (20-BK-I) | 11/13/2020 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3001 and Form B101 | Pending consideration |
| Tim Truman (22-BK-K) | 11/21/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (17-CR-B) | 07/23/2017 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Nora Freeman Engstrom (19-CV-C) | 01/22/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| In House Counsel (19-CV-D) | 01/31/2019 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Janeth Ramos (20-CV-U) | 08/09/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (21-CV-P) | 07/01/2021 | Civil | Third party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (17-CV-G) | 03/22/2017 | Civil | Rule 47 | Pending consideration |
| Brian Devine (19-CV-CC) | 10/21/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (22-CV-M) | 09/08/2022 | Civil | Rule 16(c)(2) | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-B) | 01/17/2018 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Usha Jain (20-CV-J) | 06/24/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| 35 Organizations (23-CV-M) | 05/08/2023 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (18-CV-AA) | 11/20/2018 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-E) | 04/14/2021 | Appellate | Rule 25 | Pending consideration |
| Brian T. Fitzpatrick (12-AP-F) | 08/22/2012 | Appellate | Rule 42 | Pending consideration |