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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nico Ratkowski (19-AP-A) | 03/13/2019 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| David A. Tilem, Esq. (13-BK-D) | 03/21/2013 | Bankruptcy | Form B14 | Considered |
| The National Legal Aid and Defender Association, et al (15-CV-CC) | 09/08/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Hon. Jennifer A. Dorsey (17-AP-C) | 04/11/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert E. Jones (11-CR-B) | 07/06/2011 | Criminal | Rule 24(b) | Considered |
| Shook Hardy & Bacon (20-EV-BB) | 11/09/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| McDonald Toole Wiggins, P.A. (17-CV-FFFFF) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Louis A. Leone (16-CV-I) | 11/10/2016 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (08-BK-J) | 10/01/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3001, Consumer Debt Trading | Considered |
| Judy B. Calton | 01/12/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7026 & 9014 | Considered |
| Corey J. L. Walker (17-CV-XX) | 07/20/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Alane A. Becket (18-BK-A) | 01/25/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 113 and Rule 3015.1 | 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 |
| Matthew T. Loughney (Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group) (12-BK-B) | 02/06/2012 | Bankruptcy | New Rule to Address Chapter 13 Notice of Entry of a Confirmation Order | Considered |
| National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (15-BK-D) | 06/05/2015 | Bankruptcy | Notice of Change of Address Form | Considered |
| Honorable Thomas Parker (20-CR-G) | 05/20/2020 | Criminal | Videoconferencing | Considered |
| Professor Patrick J. Schiltz (05-CV-I) | 12/10/2005 | Civil | Rule 5 | Considered |
| Jim F. Spencer, Jr., Esq. (11-BK-M) | 12/15/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9027 | Considered |
| Ninth Circuit Judicial Council Pacific Islands Committee (Sally Pym) (06-CR-G) | 09/19/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Robert Scott and Marquel Jordan (20-EV-R) | 10/05/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Damon L. Ellis (17-CV-QQQQ) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (18-CR-G) | 12/10/2018 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| New York Council of Defense Attorneys and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (16-CR-B) | 03/01/2016 | Criminal | Rule 16 (new Rule 16.1) | Considered |
| US Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Alabama (Douglas F. Young) (07-BK-B) | 01/24/2007 | Bankruptcy | Suggested creating PDF-fillable forms | Considered |
| Hon. Susan Pierson Sonderby (99-BK-B) | 01/13/1999 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 20B | Considered |
| Alan Schoenbaum, Esq. (13-CV-B) | 02/15/2013 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Sai (21-BK-H) | 04/09/2021 | Bankruptcy | Pro se electronic signatures and CM/ECF | Considered |
| Koji Fukumura, et al. (17-CV-DDDDDD) | 10/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Peter Goldberger (NACDL) (12-AP-B) | 02/14/2012 | Appellate | Form 4 | Considered |