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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Samuel L. Bufford (89-BK-A) | 01/12/1990 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002, 2003, 2013, 3002, 3004, 3005, 3007, 3015 | Considered |
| James A. Andrews (02-CV-C) | 04/08/2002 | Civil | Court Filing Fee Procedures | Considered |
| Hon. Gregory W. Carman (03-CR-E) | 10/27/2003 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| U.S. Trustee Program (99-BK-H) | 07/22/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2010, 2015, and 4004 | Considered |
| Lord & Heinlein (17-CV-IIIII) | 08/03/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Sai (19-AP-G) | 10/25/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking on Official Capacity Parties | Considered |
| Hon. Richard S. Schmidt (12-BK-E) | 03/05/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008, 7012, 9014 and 9027 | Considered |
| Dean Michael Moffit (08-CV-B) | 08/19/2008 | Civil | Pleadings Standards | Considered |
| New York Council of Defense Lawyers (14-CR-E) | 10/17/2014 | Criminal | Rule 35 | Considered |
| Susan M. Swan (17-CV-AAA) | 07/20/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Thomas Jones (18-CV-G) | 02/03/2018 | Civil | Rule 8 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert D. Drain (08-BK-N) | 01/13/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2019 | Considered |
| Congressman Jim Gibbons for Thomas Krummer (00-CR-B) | 03/21/2000 | Criminal | Rule 7 | Considered |
| The National Legal Aid and Defender Association, et al (15-CV-CC) | 09/08/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Hon. Iain Johnston (21-CV-D) | 02/08/2021 | Civil | Rule 37 | 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 |
| Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D. (13-AP-A) | 03/15/2013 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| State of California Department of Justice (Assistant Attorney General Dennis W. Dawson for Hon. Bill Lockyear, Attorney General) (00-CV-B) | 03/29/2000 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (10-CR-A) | 02/26/2010 | Criminal | Rules 5 and 58 | Considered |
| Hon. Jared Bennett (21-CV-X) | 10/13/2021 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| George Weiss (19-BK-K) | 09/16/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking regarding DSO certification; Supplements 19-BK-I | Considered |
| Peter A. Chapman (07-BK-E) | 09/12/2007 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 1 | Considered |
| Public Citizen Litigation Group (Paul A. Levy, Esq.) (06-CV-B) | 03/17/2006 | Civil | Electronic Acknowl. of Service | Considered |
| Thomas J. Yerbich (04-BK-G) | 02/10/2005 | Bankruptcy | 1019(3) | Considered |
| Andrew D. Stitt (15-CR-B) | 05/27/2015 | Criminal | Rule 6 | 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 |
| James C. Jacobsen, Esq. (10-BK-M) | 02/15/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004 & Form Chapter 13 Plan | Considered |
| James J. Curry, Jr., Esq. (13-CV-C) | 02/22/2013 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |