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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (21-CV-G) | 03/24/2021 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| Fred Wilcon (19-CR-E) | 12/24/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning Subpoenas | Pending consideration |
| Denise Richardson Crabbe (20-CV-L) | 07/19/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Johnson, Jr. (21-AP-C) | 02/23/2021 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| John Rabiej (19-CV-HH) | 12/19/2019 | Civil | Rule 16; Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Appeal Finality After Consolidation Joint Subcommittee | 03/27/2018 | Appellate | 42(a) | Pending consideration |
| Appeal Finality After Consolidation Joint Subcommittee | 03/27/2018 | Civil | 42(a) | Pending consideration |
| Michael Norman (20-CV-M) | 07/29/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-B) | 02/09/2021 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on IFP forms | Pending consideration |
| Nilda Sorger (20-CV-N) | 07/31/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Larry Wagstaff (20-CV-O) | 08/01/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Glen C. Shults (17-CV-RRRR) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Glenn Birket (20-CV-P) | 08/02/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Federal Courts Committee, State Bar of California, Litigation Section (17-CV-TTTT) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-CV-DD) | 10/30/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Gray Ritter & Graham, PC (17-CV-VVVV) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Christine E. Webber (17-CV-WWWW) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP (17-CV-XXXX) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-CR-D) | 10/30/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| John Siffert (21-CR-B) | 01/21/2021 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Beverly Peet (20-CV-Q) | 08/03/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Zachary Clopton and Andrew Hammond (21-CV-C) | 01/19/2021 | Civil | IFP Petitions | Pending consideration |
| Greg Patmythes (21-AP-A) | 01/18/2021 | Appellate | Rule 4 and Rule 6 | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison (20-AP-G) | 12/10/2020 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Michael Weston (19-CV-BB) | 10/15/2019 | Civil | Rule 4 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (20-CV-II) | 12/21/2020 | Civil | Third Party Litigation Funding | Pending consideration |
| Arthur Spitzer (19-CV-Z) | 09/19/2019 | Civil | Rule 15 | Pending consideration |
| Independent Women’s Law Center (19-CV-Y) | 09/20/2019 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Thomas O'Toole (20-CV-S) | 08/04/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Eugene Volokh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (20-CV-T) | 08/06/2020 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |