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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Defender Sentencing Guideline Committee (Jon M. Sands) (06-CR-H) | 10/24/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32(h) | Considered |
| Glen K. Palman (04-BK-A) | 02/19/2004 | Bankruptcy | Form B-10 and Directors Form for Transfer of Claim | Considered |
| Professor Stephen D. Easton (00-CV-I) | 12/04/2000 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Charles A. Lamberton (17-CV-BBB) | 07/21/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (16-BK-C) | 04/06/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6007 | Considered |
| Aaron Ahern (18-CR-A) | 02/08/2018 | Criminal | Considered | |
| Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal for Professor A. Benjamin Spencer (06-EV-A) | Evidence | Civil Rule 26 | Considered | |
| Hon. Sandra S. Beckwith (05-CV-E) | 07/13/2005 | Civil | Rule 56 – Discretion in ruling on motions for summary judgment | Considered |
| Shook Hardy & Bacon (20-EV-BB) | 11/09/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| James E. Felman (05-CR-B) | 02/05/2005 | Criminal | Rules 16 & 32 | Considered |
| Barry Green (17-CV-W) | 07/07/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System (19-BK-A) | 01/15/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3011 and 9006(b) | Considered |
| Hon. John McBryde (12-CV-B) | 04/06/2012 | Civil | Rule 15 | Considered |
| J. David Stradley (17-CV-X) | 07/10/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Jim Hood (12-CV-C) | 08/10/2012 | Civil | New rule(s) to address dilatory removal of cases to federal court | Considered |
| Patricia L. Meravi (01-BK-C) | 01/23/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3017.1, 7023.1, and 7023.2 | Considered |
| Geoffrey L. Berman (11-BK-G) | 09/22/2011 | Bankruptcy | National Bankruptcy Bar | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (15-CV-NN) | 11/09/2015 | Civil | Proposed New Rule re Mini Discovery and Prompt Trial | Considered |
| Neal K. Katyal and Sean Marotta (16-AP-D) | 10/15/2016 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Considered |
| Honorable Thomas Parker (20-CR-G) | 05/20/2020 | Criminal | Videoconferencing | Considered |
| Craig C. Reilly, Esq. (03-CV-E) | 08/06/2003 | Civil | Rules 54 & 72 | Considered |
| Robert Scott and Marquel Jordan (20-EV-R) | 10/05/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Hon. D. Brock Hornby (02-CR-A) | 03/15/2002 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Bowman and Brooke, LLP (17-CV-EEEE) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Christian Cooper (18-BK-F) | 08/15/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 122A-1 | Considered |
| Hon. Virginia Morgan (10-CV-C) | 11/30/2010 | Civil | Rule 41(a) | Considered |
| Shawna Bligh (15-CV-C) | 02/25/2015 | Civil | Rule 30 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan Pierson Sonderby (99-BK-B) | 01/13/1999 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 20B | Considered |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (Jonathan G. Katz) (08-BK-O) | 02/06/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2019 | Considered |
| Sai (21-BK-H) | 04/09/2021 | Bankruptcy | Pro se electronic signatures and CM/ECF | Considered |