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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Wilson-Aguilar (20-BK-H) | 08/03/2020 | Bankruptcy | Form B410 | Considered |
| Hon. Richard S. Schmidt (12-BK-E) | 03/05/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008, 7012, 9014 and 9027 | Considered |
| Irwin H. Warren, Esq. (03-CV-C) | 06/26/2003 | Civil | Rules 6 & 62 | Considered |
| Richard T. Seymour (17-CV-NNN) | 07/25/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Douglas M. Neistat, Esq. (10-BK-F) | 07/28/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6004-1(f) | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (02-BK-A) | 02/05/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036, 2002(g) | Considered |
| Gregory Sisk (15-AP-F) | 04/13/2015 | Appellate | Recovery of Appellate Docketing Fee after Reversal | Considered |
| National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees and Wells Fargo Corporation (George W. Stevenson, Esq.) (09-BK-K) | 12/16/2009 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 10 | Considered |
| Hon. Virginia Morgan (10-CV-C) | 11/30/2010 | Civil | Rule 41(a) | Considered |
| Skinner Law Firm (17-CV-GGGGG) | 08/02/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Thomas Sheehan (20-EV-E) | 06/09/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D. (13-AP-A) | 03/15/2013 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Peter Choate (20-EV-U) | 10/10/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | 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 |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-E) | 04/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(f)(7), 8014, and Director's Form B240 | Considered |
| Hon. Arthur Harris (21-BK-G) | 03/09/2021 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007, Official Form B423 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group, Bankruptcy Clerks Advisory Group, and Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (15-BK-H) | 08/17/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036 | Considered |
| Hon. Marvin Isgur, Hon. Elizabeth Magner, and Hon. Jeff Bohm (08-BK-K) | 12/05/2008 | Bankruptcy | New Forms Proposal – B10-A, B10-S1, B10-S2. | Considered |
| Damon L. Ellis (17-CV-QQQQ) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Mark Bennett (19-CV-S) | 07/16/2019 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (18-CR-G) | 12/10/2018 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (04-CR-A) | 03/17/2004 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| A. Benjamin Spencer (20-CV-Z) | 08/28/2020 | Civil | Rule 9(b) | Considered |
| Todd B. Hilsee (16-CV-E) | 05/24/2016 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Michael Gieseke (23-BK-A) | 01/31/2023 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2002 | Considered |
| Koji Fukumura, et al. (17-CV-DDDDDD) | 10/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| The Maritime Law Association of the United States (William R. Dorsey) (01-CV-B) | 06/15/2001 | Civil | Admiralty Rule B | Considered |
| Hon. S. Martin Teel, Jr. (15-BK-B) | 02/23/2015 | Bankruptcy | Form 263, Bill of Costs | Considered |
| Ralph Brubaker, Robert Lawless, and Bruce Markell (21-BK-C) | 02/04/2021 | Bankruptcy | Proposed amendment to Rule 7001 and new rule for certain turnover actions | Considered |