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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States (Hon. John W. Lungstrum) (04-CR-C) | 08/02/2004 | Criminal | CM/ECF – Mandatory Electronic Filing | Considered |
| Professor Linda A. Malone (05-CR-A) | 03/03/2005 | Criminal | Rules 4 & 5 (Vienna Convention) | Considered |
| James E. Felman (05-CR-B) | 02/05/2005 | Criminal | Rules 16 & 32 | Considered |
| Hon. James F. McClure, Jr. (05-CR-C) | 12/16/2004 | Criminal | Rule 10 Arraignment Procedures | Considered |
| Hon. Paul G. Cassell (05-CR-D) | 03/05/2005 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with the Crime Victims Rights Act | Considered |
| Gregory G. Skordas (05-CR-E) | 06/22/2005 | Criminal | Rule 17 (Crime Victims Rights Act) | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (05-CR-F) | 11/02/2005 | Criminal | AEDPA/Habeas Petitions | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-A) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with AEDPA; Rule 11 | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-B) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule 12 | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-C) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule 7 & 32.2 | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-D) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CR-E) | 06/19/2006 | Criminal | Sealed Cases | Considered |
| Hon. Anthony J. Battaglia (06-CR-F) | 08/15/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32.1 & 46 | Considered |
| Ninth Circuit Judicial Council Pacific Islands Committee (Sally Pym) (06-CR-G) | 09/19/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Federal Defender Sentencing Guideline Committee (Jon M. Sands) (06-CR-H) | 10/24/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32(h) | Considered |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (07-CR-A) | 04/24/2007 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Magistrate Judges of the Eastern District of New York (Hon. Steven M. Gold) (07-CR-B) | 10/17/2007 | Criminal | Rule 4; Rule 41 | Considered |
| Kelly D. Warfield (07-CR-C) | 10/29/2007 | Criminal | AEDPA Statute of Limitations | Considered |
| Stephen P. Stoltz (07-CR-D) | 05/06/2007 | Criminal | Rule 45 | Considered |
| Hon. Jack B. Weinstein (07-CR-E) | 06/03/2007 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Law (Hon. Julie E. Carnes) (08-CR-A) | 06/24/2008 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. Emmet G. Sullivan (09-CR-A) | 04/28/2009 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Enoc Mendez (09-CR-B) | 06/02/2009 | Criminal | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Sharon Bush Ellison (09-CR-C) | 11/24/2009 | Criminal | Rules 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (10-CR-A) | 02/26/2010 | Criminal | Rules 5 and 58 | Considered |
| Hon. Harvey Schlesinger (10-CR-B) | 06/08/2010 | Criminal | Rule 17(a) | Considered |
| Eric DeLeon (10-CR-C) | 06/24/2010 | Criminal | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Professor Carrie Leonetti (11-CR-A) | 06/13/2011 | Criminal | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert E. Jones (11-CR-B) | 07/06/2011 | Criminal | Rule 24(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr. (11-CR-C) | 10/20/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) (amendment regarding historically significant grand jury material) | Considered |