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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collins Fitzpatrick (18-CR-C) | 05/03/2018 | Criminal | Rule 43(a) | Considered |
| Hon. Ed Carnes (02-CR-D) | 04/15/2002 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Enoc Mendez (09-CR-B) | 06/02/2009 | Criminal | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Gerald Gleeson (21-CR-D) | 04/14/2021 | Criminal | Proposed rule permitting plea of guilty by reason of insanity | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (05-CR-F) | 11/02/2005 | Criminal | AEDPA/Habeas Petitions | Considered |
| Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (17-CR-B) | 07/23/2017 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Jon O. Newman (14-CR-A) | 01/04/2014 | Criminal | Rule 52 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (03-CR-A) | 01/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| Sharon Bush Ellison (09-CR-C) | 11/24/2009 | Criminal | Rules 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 | Considered |
| Aaron Ahern (18-CR-A) | 02/08/2018 | Criminal | Considered | |
| 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (Gino G. Agnello) (00-CR-A) | 04/11/2000 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| United States Department of Justice (Benton J. Campbell) (06-CR-A) | 01/05/2006 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with AEDPA; Rule 11 | Considered |
| Jared Kneitel, Esq. (14-CR-B) | 02/21/2014 | Criminal | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Andrew D. Stitt (15-CR-B) | 05/27/2015 | Criminal | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-CR-E) | 10/26/2015 | Criminal | Electronic Case Filing for Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (23-CR-B) | 03/10/2023 | Criminal | Rule 23(a) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. William F. Sanderson, Jr. (03-CR-B) | 03/04/2003 | Criminal | Rule 32.1 | Considered |
| Fred Wilcon (19-CR-E) | 12/24/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning Subpoenas | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (21-CR-H) | 06/21/2021 | Criminal | Rule 59(b)(2) | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (10-CR-A) | 02/26/2010 | Criminal | Rules 5 and 58 | Considered |
| Congressman Jim Gibbons for Thomas Krummer (00-CR-B) | 03/21/2000 | Criminal | Rule 7 | 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 |
| Hon. Claudia Wilken (14-CR-C) | 04/10/2014 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Bruce Reinhart (21-CR-K) | 10/26/2021 | Criminal | Rule 5 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Grimm (17-CR-D) | 12/01/2017 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Rep. Adam Schiff and Other Members of Congress (23-CR-E) | 08/03/2023 | Criminal | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-CR-B) | 07/09/2019 | Criminal | Rule 45 | Pending consideration |
| Carl E. Person (03-CR-C) | 04/01/2003 | Criminal | Plea Bargaining | Considered |
| Hon. Harvey Schlesinger (10-CR-B) | 06/08/2010 | Criminal | Rule 17(a) | Considered |