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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appellate Rules Advisory Committee (15-AP-C) | 04/23/2015 | Appellate | Rule 31 | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, Esq. (11-AP-E) | 11/14/2011 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Alan Morrison (14-AP-A) | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered | |
| Nico Ratkowski (19-AP-A) | 03/13/2019 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Amy M. Smith, Esq. (11-AP-F) | 12/07/2011 | Appellate | Consider amendment authorizing discretionary interlocutory appeals from attorney-client privilege rulings | Considered |
| Hon. Steven M. Colloton (13-AP-C) | 03/20/2013 | Appellate | Consider possible rules for expediting proceedings under Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. | Considered |
| Sai (20-AP-E) | 08/24/2020 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Pending consideration |
| Catherine M. Riga (17-AP-A) | 03/30/2017 | Appellate | Rules 4 and 27 | Considered |
| Gary Peel (21-AP-F) | 04/28/2021 | Appellate | New rule mandating time frame for motion resolution | Considered |
| Bryan A. Garner (17-AP-B) | 01/12/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Sai (19-AP-C) | 06/27/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-AP-G) | 10/25/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking on Official Capacity Parties | Considered |
| Sai (20-AP-B) | 05/20/2020 | Appellate | Rule 25 | Considered |
| Peter Goldberger (NACDL) (12-AP-B) | 02/14/2012 | Appellate | Form 4 | Considered |
| Gregory Sisk (15-AP-F) | 04/13/2015 | Appellate | Recovery of Appellate Docketing Fee after Reversal | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (18-AP-C) | 05/01/2018 | Appellate | Privacy Concern Regarding Social Security and Immigration Opinions | Pending consideration |
| Eric Bravo (16-AP-C) | 09/30/2016 | Appellate | Rule 32.1 and 35 | Considered |
| Steven Finell, Esq. (Council of Appellate Lawyers) (12-AP-C) | Appellate | Rule 28 and 28.1 | Considered | |
| Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (22-AP-B) | 03/14/2022 | Appellate | Rule 29(a)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Betsy Shumaker (16-AP-E) | 09/23/2016 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, 27, 30 | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-H) | 10/26/2015 | Appellate | Electronic Case Filing for Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| Brian T. Fitzpatrick (12-AP-F) | 08/22/2012 | Appellate | Rule 42 | Pending consideration |
| Thomas L. Wright (16-AP-A) | 02/12/2016 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber of Commerce (21-AP-G) | 10/06/2021 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Jennifer A. Dorsey (17-AP-C) | 04/11/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | 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 |
| Stephen E. Sachs (18-AP-D) | 08/13/2018 | Appellate | Rule 36 | Considered |
| Alan Morrison (21-AP-D) | 04/13/2021 | Appellate | Rule 39 | Pending consideration |
| Steven A. Hirsch (17-AP-D) | 04/14/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |